Why does VIM say there are trailing characters on this command?

I am trying to write a beautify CSS command in vim that sorts and alphabetizes all of the CSS properties as well as checks to see if there is not a space after the colon and inserts one.

Here is my code:

nnoremap <leader>S :g#\({\n\)\@<=#.,/}/sort | %s/:\(\S\)/: \1/g<CR>
:command! SortCSSBraceContents :g#\({\n\)\@<=#.,/}/sort | %s/:\(\S\)/: \1/g

These work independently. However, I am trying to pipe them into one command.

On save VIM says:

Error detected while processing /var/home/jesse-atkinson/.vimrc:
line  196:
E488: Trailing characters

Any ideas?

Jesse Atkinson

Posted 2012-10-12T15:35:28.077

Reputation: 717

There are about 30 trailing spaces at the end of your :command! line. – Excellll – 2012-10-12T15:37:30.140

Bad copy & paste job. I promise you that in my .vimrc there isn't. And it pukes on the line above, not the line with the command in it. – Jesse Atkinson – 2012-10-12T15:52:53.430

I suspect that <CR> is not supposed to be there. – Michael Hampton – 2012-10-12T17:21:33.133

2@JesseAtkinson, it is not easy to find line 196 in your two lines example. – romainl – 2012-10-12T18:31:01.403

Line 196 is the first line I posted. – Jesse Atkinson – 2012-10-18T14:51:38.623

Why does VIM say there are trailing characters on this command?

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