>>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.

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