Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Andy Parkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:32:13 +0100

On Wednesday 2007 October 17, David wrote:

> The last two are extremely useful, especially if you're hacking on
> python.  That's
> listchars=(less-than)tab(greater-than)(colon)(dot)(backslash)(space)
> (don't forget the space!).

On the subject of high-ascii chars.  Here's my favourite for your .vimrc

 execute 'set listchars+=tab:'.nr2char(187).nr2char(183)

187 is the "significantly greater than" symbol and 183 is a central dot.  i.e. 
every character of a tab is non-space.  The actual characters used aren't 
actually the point I wanted to make; the thing here is that two non-space 
characters are used, so every column occupied by the tab is visible - this 
makes it very easy to see where tabs end and spaces begin.

Andy
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