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Re: visible-whitespace-mode


From: Kevin A. Burton
Subject: Re: visible-whitespace-mode
Date: 26 Nov 2001 02:21:26 -0800
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Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> A while back during one of the usual bouts of discussions about an
> emacs analogue of vi's `:set list', I whipped up the following package,
> which implements `visible-whitespace-mode'.  It tries to be slightly
> more clever than usual by changing the color of the whitespace indicators
> characters so that they are easily distinguishable from ordinary text,
> and using somewhat more iconic characters if the terminal supports them.
> 
> Also (unlike `:set list'), it attempts to put the whitespace indicators
> `in context'; that is, whereas `:set list' will change all tabs to `^I',
> thereby making all your indented code look wonky, visible-whitespace-mode
> actually displays tabs as an indicator character (say `\', rendered in
> an apropriately muted color) followed by an actual tab.  This means
> that most of the time, indentation won't be affected.
<snip>

My tab display package can display tabs like vi..  AKA '>>>>' with a blue face.

http://relativity.yi.org/el/tab-display.el

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For great justice.
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