Awesome. Thanks...

--- Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Thanks for all the suggestions. They helped out... If there a way
> to
> > check and see if the listchar is actually set or not?
> > 
> > In my script, I now turn off the display with 'set invlist list?',
> but
> > I do not want to turn it back on if it was not previously set...
> 
> 
> Well, you can use the common idiom
> 
>       let l:old_list = &list
>       set nolist
>       " do stuff
>       let &list = l:old_list
> 
> which will allow you to temporarily disable the 'list' setting, 
> do stuff without it, and then restore it to whatever it was 
> previously...
> 
> -tim
> 
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