Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
Otherwise, do a '0' and ride the 'j' key allll the way down a
file. If the cursor doesn't budge, how would you be able to
tell if it was a space or multiple spaces there, or a tab
character?
Well, if that information is truely useful and what you want to
know, you can always
:set list
Displays "^I" just fine, but trashes actual indentation, at least for me
(dunno if there's any magical 'vim' setting, like ":set keepindent" or
something). Iow, I wanna be able to see
indented text...
and just see whether it's indented with spaces or tabs, not
^I^I^Iindented text...$
with everything squooshed to the left of the screen.
Now, maybe if there were a "show" character in list-mode, so it'd look
like
> > >indented text
that'd work for me, too.
Worse comes to worse, I just do "/^I" and have all tabs highlighted in
fiery-red, but I can't deal with too much of that, as it sunburns my
retinas fairly quickly.
About the fiery red highlight, change your colourscheme; or move it to (on
Windows, but in Vim terminology) $HOME/vimfiles/colors/ under a changed name
(create the directories if necessary) then change the highlight for the Search
and/or IncSearch groups.
About the width of tabs, see ":help 'listchars'":
With 'list' on, then if 'listchars' doesn't contain "tab:" each tab is
replaced by ^I, trashing indentation. But if it contains "tab:xy" where x and
y are any two characters (the same or different) then x marks the start of
each tab and y the rest of it. Note that spaces, double quotes, bars and
backslashes must be backslash-escaped.
Examples (assuming ts=8):
:set list listchars=tab:\ \ ,eol:¶
keep tabs as up to 8 spaces, show ends-of-lines with
the Pilcrow mark
:set list listchars=tab:\|_,eol:$
show each tab as one bar followed by 0 to 7 underlines,
ends-of-lines as dollar signs.
:set list listchars=tab:^\ ,trail:§,extends:>,precedes:<,nbsp:~
show:
- a hard tab as one caret followed by zero or more spaces
- end-of-line is not highlighted
- trailing spaces as §
- last character before overflow right in 'nowrap' mode as >
- first character after overflow left in 'nowrap mode as <
- no-break spaces as (blue) tildes
etc.
Best regards,
Tony.
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