When the trailing spaces are highlighted, it is easy for us to delete it and don't create new trailing spaces.
Zheng
Vim: Add following lines in the .vimrc "The highlight way can be in your own way. Highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermfg=DarkGray ctermbg=yellow "Show trailing whitespace match ExtraWhitespace /\s+$/
Emacs: Add the following lines into the .emacs (setq-default show-trailing-whitespace 1)