Showing trailing spaces in vim

Question

I\'ve set the following options in .vimrc

set listchars=tab:▸\\ ,trail:·
set list

And expected to see dots in those places where spaces are use

Answer 1

You should check this link. I'm using the match command solution :

:highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=red guibg=red
:match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/

This page also provides list based solutions which I haven't personally tried.