>> Would you be satisfied with changing the background color for
>>spaces? Step 1:
>
> Ah, that's an idea. Just "/ " to search for spaces (assumes
> highlighting's turned on), and they'll all be highlighted. He wants to
> turn off highlighting, just "/qqq" or something.
>
>
> Else maybe tweak the font to change space to · or something.
> Thing is, change the font to something else, and that goes away, and
> he'd have to tweak the font for that as well.
>
> Eg, if he's using Lucida console 10pt, make a copy of the font, rename
> to something else ("Lucidaspace" or whatever), edit the font to change
> the space char, then when you want visispaces, just font your way to
> that. Want invisispaces again, change back to the normal Lucida font.
I prefer "/;;" to turn off highlighting. the keys are right next to each
other and never happen in any languages I use.
For spaces, maybe not exactly the same thing, but I have a .vim to color
every three out of four leading spaces as magenta underline (in a
non-expandtab file). The file also points out a lot of other spacing issues.
Activate this anywhere that doesn't have a strict real-tab rule and
you'll see all the inconsistancies light up. The blue underlines
between words are ok and just there to help line up widely spaced tables.
I should probably add something to ignore the two spaces between
sentences in prose.
odd_space.vim:
syn match newtab "[\t]\+$" containedin=ALL
syn match spacereturn "[ ]$" containedin=ALL
syn match spacetab "[ ]\t"me=e-1 containedin=ALL
syn match tabspace "\t[ ]\+"lc=1 containedin=ALL
syn match tabtab "[ -'*-Z^-z|~]\t\t\t*[
-'*-.0-Z^-z|~]"lc=1,me=e-1
containedin=ALLBUT,cComment
syn match leadspace "[ ][ ]"lc=1 contained
syn match pairspace "[ ][ ]"hs=s+1 contained
nextgroup=pairspace,leadspace
syn match quadspace "[ ][ ][ ][ ]"hs=s+1 contained
nextgroup=quadspace,pairspace,leadspace
syn match pairstart "^[ ][ ]"hs=s+1
nextgroup=quadspace,pairspace,leadspace
syn match quadstart "^[ ][ ][ ][ ]"hs=s+1
nextgroup=quadspace,pairspace,leadspace
syn match spaces "[^ ][ ]\{2,}"lc=1
hi spacetab ctermfg=Red guifg=red
gui=underline cterm=underline
hi tabspace ctermfg=Red guifg=red
gui=underline cterm=underline
hi spacereturn ctermfg=Red guifg=red
gui=underline cterm=underline
hi newtab ctermfg=Blue guifg=#8888FF gui=underline
cterm=underline
hi tabtab ctermfg=Blue guifg=#444488 gui=underline
cterm=underline
if &expandtab == 0
hi quadspace ctermfg=Magenta guifg=#440044 gui=underline
cterm=underline
else
hi link quadspace Normal
endif
hi link pairstart pairspace
hi link quadstart quadspace
hi spaces ctermfg=DarkRed guifg=#550000 gui=underline
cterm=underline
hi pairspace ctermfg=Yellow guifg=#FFFF00 gui=underline
cterm=underline
hi link leadspace pairspace
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