On Friday, April 4, 2014 6:28:25 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > You must set two characters for tab. See ":help lcs-tab". > > > <face palm> yes this is it. I had this correct when I first tried this, and > at some point omitted one of the two characters needed for tab. Now my > original code works too: set listchars=eol:¶,tab:\|\ > ,trail:•,extends:»,precedes:«,nbsp:× as does a corrected form of Ben Fritz's > solution: let &listchars="eol:\u00b6,tab:\|\ > ,trail:\u2022,extends:\u00bb,precedes:\u00ab,nbsp:\u00d7" >
Oops, I tested with "tab:| " and somehow omitted the space when pasting. Within the :let &listchars="..." string you don't need to escape the | or the space, since it is within a string. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
