git diff like highlighting of extra whitespace in vim and emacs

via Jim Meyering via coreutils list

Some configs for vim and emacs to show trailing whitespace and other whitespace anomalies.

vim config

let c_space_errors=1
highlight RedundantSpaces ctermbg=red guibg=red
match RedundantSpaces /\s\+$\| \+\ze\t/

Emacs needs the Whitespace mode from http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhiteSpace

The default config is a bit overboard for me, so I use something more like:

;http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhiteSpace
(require 'whitespace)
(autoload 'global-whitespace-mode "whitespace" "Toggle whitespace visualization." t)
(autoload 'global-whitespace-toggle-options "whitespace" "Toggle local `whitespace-mode' options." t)

;turn on the more or less git diff --color whitespace highlighting
(setq whitespace-space whitespace-style (quote (face tabs trailing space-before-tab newline empty space-after-tab indentation)))