<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">thanks, I'll give it a try.<div> </div><div>cheers,</div><div>bill</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> <div><div>On Jan 28, 2016, at 7:22 PM, Graham Heath wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto"><div>The best remove trailing white space remover I know of is in the Avian Missing TextMate Bundle:</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://github.com/elia/avian-missing.tmbundle">https://github.com/elia/avian-missing.tmbundle</a></div><div> </div><div>I do have it set to TM_STRIP_WHITESPACE_ON_SAVE = true</div><div> <div>Graham Heath</div></div><div> On Jan 28, 2016, at 5:27 PM, Bill Paxton <<a href="mailto:paxton@kitp.ucsb.edu">paxton@kitp.ucsb.edu</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Excellent suggestions -- thanks to both of you. Turns out that I somehow got long sections of trailing blanks in several lines, and that's why a visual scan didn't show the location. I'm sure there must be a way to delete trailing blanks from all lines -- could you tell me how or point me to the relevant information. Thanks again, Bill On Jan 28, 2016, at 4:33 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote: <blockquote type="cite">Why not simply do a Find in the document for a regular expression of this sort: </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">^.{100,} </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">...that is to say, "a line longer than 100 characters"? For 100, substitute any number you think might be exceeded by just this one excessive line. m. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote>On Jan 28, 2016, at 4:14 PM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hi Bill, </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it's fast written ;) - and if you don't have more than 999999999 lines in your document: </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Create a new Command; input: selection or text; output: discard </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Command: </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">#!/bin/sh </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">open txmt://open?line=`nl -nrz -w9 -b a|awk '{print length, $0}'|sort -nr|head -1|awk '{print $2}'` </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This command will locate the caret at the beginning of the longest line in the current document. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers, Hans </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________ </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">textmate mailing list </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate</a> </blockquote> _______________________________________________ textmate mailing list <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate</a> </div></blockquote></div> _______________________________________________ textmate mailing list <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate</blockquote></div> </div></body></html>