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index ab0354c2..e3fd491b 100644
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@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Janus ships with a number of basic customizations for vim:
 * Ruler (line and column numbers)
 * No wrap (turn off per-buffer via :set wrap)
 * Soft 2-space tabs, and default hard tabs to 2 spaces
-* Show tailing whitespace as `.`
+* Show trailing whitespace as `.`
 * Make searching highlighted, incremental, and case insensitive unless a
   capital letter is used
 * Always show a status line