Jérémie Roquet wrote:
> 2009/10/28 Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]>: > >> It adds "space" in the allowed "listchars" arguments. > > I'm confused. It appears the "space" character is both used to display > > instead of a space character when 'list' is on, and to find this > > character after the end of the line and replace it with "trail". > > To me these are two unrelated things. > > You are right. This was because spaces were already replaced at that > point, making the replacement with "trail" impossible. > But it leads to side effects if the "space replacement" character is > actually used in the edited file. > > Here is a new patch without this annoying side-effect. > > > I'm not sure how useful it is to show something instead of a space. > > Isn't it obvious that there is a space when there is nothing? > > Sometimes it's not : I'm using a visible character for the first > column of tabs, but an invisible one for the remaining columns. > So cases where a tab is followed by a space are not that obvious. > And as Steve pointed out, double spaces are not always obvious either. > > 2009/10/29 Steve Hall <[email protected]> > > Bram, I can't speak for the author, but I'd like this feature to make > > it easy to visualize: > > * other non-printing characters that look like dec 032 > > * double spaces > > * spaces after chars at window edges with wrap on > > * every char as a byte > > As for now, only the ' ' character is displayed, but it'd easy to > support more. Well, I might consider including this. Can you write a patch for the documentation as well? -- TALL KNIGHT: When you have found the shrubbery, then you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest ... with a herring. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" PYTHON (MONTY) PICTURES LTD /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
