How to run command over multiple buffers/tabs to remove trailing spaces?

Question

I have a command to tidy up excessive whitespace in my code in vim:

\" to tidy excess whitespace
map 1 :execute \':%s#\\s\\+$##g\'
         


        

Answer 1

See this vim tip on using bufdo, windo, and tabdo.

Assuming all your buffers are in the buffer list, your map could be as simple as

" to tidy excess whitespace
map 1 :execute ':bufdo! %s#\s\+$##g'