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

Based on the link posted by icecrime, I find this works quite well...

" Be clever about highlighting trailing whitespace (don't highlight it if we are
" in 'insert' mode and the cursor is at the end of the line). Also (regardless
" of 'insert' mode), highlight any tabs that immediately follow space(s).
" EOLWS and EOLWSInsert are colour group names; the latter being toned-down to
" make editing in 'insert' mode easier on the eye
autocmd InsertEnter * match EOLWS // | match EOLWSInsert /\s\+\%#\@

Also, make sure the 'Error' highlight group is NOT defined as inverse video - if it is, it conflicts on strange ways with the above