Lev Lvovsky wrote:
Can anyone suggest the best way to be able to highlight tabs (versus
softtabs) selectively? meaning, at the push of a button I can have that
feature turned on, and pressing it again turns it off - all the while
not messing with my search buffer?
thanks!
-lev
Method I.
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/\t
highlights all hard tabs in "Search" highlight
:noh
clears
BUT: clobbers search register
Method II.
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:match Todo /\t/
:match none
Method III.
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:setlocal list listchars=tab:\|_,eol:¶
:setlocal nolist
- local to window: setting can be different in parallel windows
- the first character position is different from the rest, allowing easier
counting of hard tabs
In each case, you can map the "on" and "off" commands to a pair of "related"
keys such as e.g. F6 and Shift-F6. Example for Method III:
:map <F6> :setl list lcs=tab:\|_,eol:¶<CR>
:map <S-F6> :setl nolist<CR>
:imap <F6> <C-O>:setl list lcs=tab:\|_,eol:¶<CR>
:imap <S-F6> <C-O>:setl nolist<CR>
Best regards,
Tony.
