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:%s/\n\{3,}/\r\r/g
When files pass through formatters, generators, or repeated edits, they often accumulate noisy vertical gaps.
category: editing tags: #editing #substitute #formatting #cleanup
/\S\zs\s\+$
A plain trailing-whitespace search like /\s\+$ also matches fully blank lines, which is noisy when you only want accidental spaces after real content.
category: search tags: #search #regex #whitespace #cleanup #patterns
:tabonly | %bdelete | edit #
When your Vim session becomes cluttered with many tabs and buffers, you can clean up by closing all tabs except the current one with :tabonly, then deleting all
category: buffers-windows tags: #buffers-windows #cleanup #tabs #buffers
qa:s/\s\+$//e\n jq
Record a macro that runs a substitution on the current line to remove trailing spaces, then moves down.
category: macros tags: #macros #trailing-whitespace #cleanup
qa0d2Wjq
Record a macro that goes to the start of the line, deletes the first two words (timestamp fields), then moves down.