diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 098b1be..6b7f813 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@
 [submodule "vim_plugins/salt-vim"]
 	path = vim_plugins/salt-vim
 	url = https://github.com/saltstack/salt-vim.git
+[submodule "vim_plugins/vim-better-whitespace"]
+	path = vim_plugins/vim-better-whitespace
+	url = git://github.com/ntpeters/vim-better-whitespace.git
diff --git a/vim_plugins/vim-better-whitespace b/vim_plugins/vim-better-whitespace
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..70a38fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vim_plugins/vim-better-whitespace
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 70a38fa9683e8cd0635264dd1b69c6ccbee4e3e7