> so basically there is no way in Vim to display the actual newline
> characters that exist in the file
>
> seems like an awful limitation
I do not understand what you mean with "actual newline characters".
Those are not printable characters, you can't display them other than
the line break itself, which is of course visible.
Perhaps you can illustrate what you expected to see?
Keep in mind that wording might matter. When you say "newline" I think
of the ASCII NL symbol (also called LF), which is decimal 10 or hex 0A.
Some people call it the "line separator", which goes into the direction
of the last line not being followed by one, but most Unix systems
consider it a "line terminator" and then the last line does have one.
This mainly matters for what happens when concatenating two files.
Also for detecting a possible truncated file (not 100% reliable of
course, but if a text file doesn't end in a newline character it's often
caused by it being unexpectedly truncated).
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