diff --git a/scripts/build.sh b/scripts/build.sh
index 8d5bec58..d70c50dd 100755
--- a/scripts/build.sh
+++ b/scripts/build.sh
@@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ else
 fi
 
 # .bracketexpr.generated.ts is needed for metadata generation
-"$(npm bin)/nearleyc" src/grammars/bracketexpr.ne \
-  > src/grammars/.bracketexpr.generated.ts
+(
+printf '/* tslint:disable:no-trailing-whitespace */\n'
+"$(npm bin)/nearleyc" src/grammars/bracketexpr.ne
+) > src/grammars/.bracketexpr.generated.ts
 
 # It's important to generate the metadata before the documentation because
 # missing imports might break documentation generation on clean builds
diff --git a/src/content/hinting.ts b/src/content/hinting.ts
index 2f94652c..55ce5ee7 100644
--- a/src/content/hinting.ts
+++ b/src/content/hinting.ts
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ function* hintnames_simple(
     So it removes them. This function is not yet clever enough to realise that if n > h ** 2 it should remove
         h + (n - h**2 - h) / h ** 2
     and so on, but we hardly ever see that many hints, so whatever.
-    
+
 */
 function* hintnames_short(
     n: number,
diff --git a/src/excmds.ts b/src/excmds.ts
index a2f9be52..999b9a94 100644
--- a/src/excmds.ts
+++ b/src/excmds.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 /* tslint:disable:array-type */
 /* tslint:disable:comment-format */
 /* tslint:disable:no-consecutive-blank-lines */
+/* tslint:disable:no-trailing-whitespace */
 /* tslint:disable:quotemark */
 // '//#' is a start point for a simple text-replacement-type macro. See excmds_macros.py
 
diff --git a/src/lib/autocontainers.ts b/src/lib/autocontainers.ts
index e0002b12..837d2b36 100644
--- a/src/lib/autocontainers.ts
+++ b/src/lib/autocontainers.ts
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
   * Unescaped periods will match *anything*. `autocontain google.co.uk work` will match `google!co$uk`. Escape your periods or accept that you might get some false positives.
   * You can use regex in your domain pattern. `autocontain google\,(co\.uk|com) work` will match either `google.co.uk` or `google.com`.
 
- TODO: Should try and detect Multi Account Containers and/or Contain Facebook extensions from Mozilla. 
- 
+ TODO: Should try and detect Multi Account Containers and/or Contain Facebook extensions from Mozilla.
+
  A lot of the inspiration for this code was drawn from the Mozilla `contain facebook` Extension.
  https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import * as Logging from "@src/lib/logging"
 const logger = new Logging.Logger("containers")
 
 /** An interface for the additional object that's supplied in the BlockingResponse callback.
- 
+
  Details here:
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/webRequest/onBeforeRequest#details
 
diff --git a/src/lib/itertools.ts b/src/lib/itertools.ts
index 14e13c56..c8965dbb 100644
--- a/src/lib/itertools.ts
+++ b/src/lib/itertools.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ export function find(iter, predicate) {
 /** Zip some arrays together
 
     If you need variable length args, you need izip for now.
-    
+
 */
 export function zip(...arrays) {
     // Make an array of length values
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ export function zeros(n) {
     return new Array(n).fill(0)
 }
 
-/** islice(iter, stop) = Give the first `stop` elements 
+/** islice(iter, stop) = Give the first `stop` elements
     islice(iter, start, stop)
         skip `start` elements, then give `stop - start` elements,
         unless `stop` is null, then emit indefinitely
diff --git a/src/lib/number.mod.ts b/src/lib/number.mod.ts
index cf12b381..85313bca 100644
--- a/src/lib/number.mod.ts
+++ b/src/lib/number.mod.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ export function my_mod(dividend, divisor) {
 }
 
 /** Always gives a positive result.
-    
+
     Equivalent to knuth_mod when divisor is +ve
     Equivalent to % when dividend is +ve
 */
diff --git a/tslint.json b/tslint.json
index 2574b127..9a0136bf 100644
--- a/tslint.json
+++ b/tslint.json
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
     "no-identical-functions": false,
     "no-shadowed-variable": false,
     "no-string-throw": false,
-    "no-trailing-whitespace": false,
     "no-unnecessary-initializer": false,
     "no-unsafe-finally": false,
     "no-var-keyword": false,