Steve Hall 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.)
Note I don't find this an issue as vim does highlight intermediate tabs, I use the following settings ~/.vimrc for visible whitespace: "flag problematic whitespace (trailing and spaces before tabs) "Note you get the same by doing let c_space_errors=1 but "this rule really applys to everything. highlight RedundantSpaces term=standout ctermbg=red guibg=red match RedundantSpaces /\s\+$\| \+\ze\t/ "use :set list! to toggle visible whitespace on/off set listchars=tab:>-,trail:.,extends:> Pádraig.
