On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Igor Forca <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > when I open the file which includes tabs characters I can replace tabs with > some other characters if I want like using: > :%s/^I/ /g > To get ^I I press Control+V and then press i key. > > I know ^I is a symbol for tabs. But is there a way instead of horizontal > spacing produced by pressing tab key to display ^I control character? > Just like for example when Control+V and m is pressed to display carriage > return character ^M > > So, how to display ^I (as single character) instead of horizontal spacing > produced by tab key? > > Thanks
See :help 'list' and :help 'listchars' -- these are local options, boolean and comma-separated string respectively If 'list' is off, a hard tab is represented as one or more spaces If 'list' is on and 'listchars' includes tab:xy (where x and y are any two characters, but see ":help option-backslash") a hard tab is represented as one x and zero or more y (see examples under |lcs-tab|) If 'list' is on and 'listchars' does not include tab: a hard tab is shown as ^I Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" 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.
