This is what I'd thinked about. IMO, Consider use the Underlined group, The underlined is not a character, but it looks like a character.
I guess this suit Johnson's need better. HTH -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606 Benji Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2006.07.21 13:56:55: > Would you be satisfied with changing the background color for > spaces? Step 1: > > :hi > > and look for a pleasing color. I am not using the GUI right now, and it > looks as though my choices are limited. (Many groups change the > foreground color but not the background, at least in the default color > scheme with my terminal.) I will choose DiffChange . Second step: > > :match DiffChange / / > > Ahh! That looks awful, so > > :match NONE > > will get me back to normal. > > HTH --Benji Fisher > > P.S. I think that :match NONE only works with vim 7.0, but I think the > rest works with vim 6.x. > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 11:48:45AM +0800, Stewart Johnson wrote: > > Thanks guys! > > > > Intermediate spaces were what I was looking for, oh well. :-/ > > > > > > On 7/21/06, Steve Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:19 +0800, Stewart Johnson wrote: > > >> > > >> Is there a vim option to represent space characters in a file as a > > >> dot or something else not blank? > > > > > >Vim can only represent trailing spaces, not any intermediate ones. > > >(Per the previously mentioned listchars option.) > > > > > > > > >-- > > >Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ] > > > > > > > > >