>>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.