On Jun 14, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Salman Halim wrote:

> It's possible that you're not seeing the EOL characters, despite setting
> 'listchars', because 'list' itself isn't set. The 'listchars' setting
> has an effect only if 'list' is set. Try:
> 
>  :verb set list? listchars?
> 
> This will indicate both the values of 'list' and 'listchars' as well as
> (maybe) where they were last set. You could try things manually by
> forcibly setting the values by hand to see:
> 
>  :set list

Thanks, Salman. Did the trick. Then Tim pointed out the problem: no screen wrap 
by words. But now that I know I can set 'list' when it would be helpful and I 
can up with no wrap by word for the time required.

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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA 
[email protected]

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, 
we borrow it from our children." 

- Chief Seattle.

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