How to skip to the last non-blank line?

Question

Is there a way of calling (end-of-buffer) that excludes trailing empty lines?

Answer 1

We can go to the end of the buffer, then move backwards over whitespace:

(progn (goto-char (point-max))
       (skip-chars-backward "\n[:space:]"))

If you want to call this interactively, make it into a command:

(defun end-of-buffer-before-whitespace ()
  "Move point to after the last non-whitespace character in the buffer."
  (interactive)
  (goto-char (point-max))
  (skip-chars-backward "\n[:space:]"))