From 9bb6fb8e49974547bac005cf616652174f7e5842 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mg <michael.grote@posteo.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 09:13:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] vim: function whitespaces

---
 .vimrc | 27 ++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.vimrc b/.vimrc
index 7ee678d..c7dba3e 100644
--- a/.vimrc
+++ b/.vimrc
@@ -234,15 +234,24 @@ nnoremap <Leader>z :set nonumber! norelativenumber!<CR>
 :  autocmd BufLeave,FocusLost,InsertEnter,WinLeave   * if &nu                  | set nornu | endif
 :augroup END
 
-" entferne trailing whitespaces beim speichern
-autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//e
-" entferne multiple consecutive empty lines
-if executable('cat')
-  autocmd BufWritePre *.md silent %!cat -s
-endif
-" remove multiple whitespaces between words
-" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5150870/efficient-way-to-remove-multiple-spaces-between-two-words-in-Vim
-autocmd BufWritePre *.md :%s/\(\w\)\s\+\(\w\)/\1 \2/g
+function! Whitespaces()
+    " Remove trailing whitespace
+    %s/\s\+$//e
+
+    " Replace consecutive spaces between words with a single space (only for .md files)
+    if &filetype == "markdown"
+        %s/\(\w\)\s\+\(\w\)/\1 \2/g
+    endif
+
+    " Run silent command to remove multiple consecutive empty lines (only for .md files)
+    if &filetype == "markdown"
+        silent %!cat -s
+    endif
+endfunction
+
+" Map F9 to execute the custom function
+nnoremap <F9> :call Whitespaces()<CR>
+
 
 
 " Exit Vim if NERDTree is the only window remaining in the only tab.