Sublime Text 2 plugin to strip trailing whitespace #python #sublimetext

strip_trailing_whitespace.py

import sublime_plugin

class StripTrailingWhitespaceCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    """
    Strip whitespace from the end of each line in the file.
    """
    def run(self, edit):
        trailing_white_space = self.view.find_all("[\t ]+$")
        trailing_white_space.reverse()
        for r in trailing_white_space:
            self.view.erase(edit, r)

To bind to a key sequence, select Preferences -> User Key Bindings and add:

{ "keys": ["ctrl+super+s"], "command": "strip_trailing_whitespace" }

Cool simple Sublime plugin! Why did you reverse the pattern matches in line 9?