Added a lot of stuff to my vimrc lately and I am not sure what is causing vim to colour the whitespaces. The colour disappears when I save the file. However I would like to disable this feature. Is there any way to do so?
set nocompatible " Use Vim settings, rather than Vi settings
set softtabstop=2 " Indent by 2 spaces when hitting tab
set shiftwidth=4 " Indent by 4 spaces when auto-indenting
set tabstop=4 " Show existing tab with 4 spaces width
syntax on " Enable syntax highlighting
filetype indent on " Enable indenting for files
set autoindent " Enable auto indenting
set number
set relativenumber " Enable relative numbers
set nobackup " Disable backup files
set laststatus=1 "show status line
set statusline=%F%m%r%h%w%=(%{&ff}/%Y)\ (line\ %l\/%L,\ col\ %c)\
set wildmenu " Display command line's tab complete options as a menu.
set hlsearch
set title
" Move visual selection
vnoremap J :m '>+1<CR>gv=gv
vnoremap K :m '<-2<CR>gv=gv
" Relative numbers in normal mode only
augroup toggle_relative_number
autocmd InsertEnter * :setlocal norelativenumber
autocmd InsertLeave * :setlocal relativenumber
let mapleader = "\<Space>"
nnoremap t :w<CR>
" highlight trailing whitespace
match ErrorMsg '\s\+$'
" remove trailing whitespaces automatically
autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//e
" TAB Completion
function! Smart_TabComplete()
let line = getline('.') " current line
let substr = strpart(line, -1, col('.')+1) " from the start of the current
" line to one character right
" of the cursor
let substr = matchstr(substr, "[^ \t]*$") " word till cursor
if (strlen(substr)==0) " nothing to match on empty string
return "\<tab>"
endif
let has_period = match(substr, '\.') != -1 " position of period, if any
let has_slash = match(substr, '\/') != -1 " position of slash, if any
if (!has_period && !has_slash)
return "\<C-X>\<C-P>" " existing text matching
elseif ( has_slash )
return "\<C-X>\<C-F>" " file matching
else
return "\<C-X>\<C-O>" " plugin matching
endif
endfunction
inoremap <tab> <c-r>=Smart_TabComplete()<CR>
nnoremap <Leader>O O<ESC>
nnoremap <Leader>o o<ESC>
nnoremap <Leader>d /some_random_text<CR>
vnoremap F "+y
