From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How to show all characters in a specific line Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:09:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <87a92334hb.fsf@reader.local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420063781 19253 80.91.229.3 (31 Dec 2014 22:09:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:09:41 +0000 (UTC) To: Harry Putnam , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 31 23:09:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6RSP-0002Uf-D6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 23:09:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41488 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6RSO-0000Ez-N2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:09:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45525) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6RSE-0000DJ-IL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:09:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6RS9-00045M-Jv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:09:22 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:50953) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6RS9-000456-Ev for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id sBVM9F5Q029045 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:09:16 GMT Original-Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sBVM9EmK028344 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:09:15 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0001.oracle.com (abhmp0001.oracle.com [141.146.116.7]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sBVM9EEL024408; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:09:14 GMT In-Reply-To: <87a92334hb.fsf@reader.local.lan> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101813 Archived-At: > In vi/vim on any line and in Command mode if you press :l you > will see any \t, newline and etc. If you are talking only about whitespace chars then you can use `whitespace-mode' to show them highlighted in various ways or contexts. See the Emacs manual, node `Useless Whitespace' for more information. You can also use library `highlight-chars.el' to do this. It lets you highlight any characters pretty much any way you like. It is available from MELPA or Emacs Wiki (the wiki is down at the moment, however).