From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tuukka Toivonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: show tabstop Date: 14 Apr 2003 08:40:40 GMT Organization: University of Oulu Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7f7qm-7hv.ln1@java.adp-entwicklung.gauselmann.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050310085 18731 80.91.224.249 (14 Apr 2003 08:48:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 14 10:48:03 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194zdD-0004rz-00 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:48:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 194zan-0003CH-0A for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 04:45:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.telebyte.nl!news1.spb.su!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!ousrvr3.oulu.fi!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: s-inf-pc24.oulu.fi Original-X-Trace: ousrvr3.oulu.fi 1050309640 14874 130.231.50.154 (14 Apr 2003 08:40:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.oulu.fi Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Apr 2003 08:40:40 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111956 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8456 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8456 In article <7f7qm-7hv.ln1@java.adp-entwicklung.gauselmann.de>, Detlef Jockheck wrote: > is it possible to change the display of tabulator-characters. Im some cases > it's very important to know if there is a tab or 8 spaces. In Emacs you could use "stretch cursor" that makes the cursor fill whole Tab position if there is one. Or, the following from my .emacs file: (and standard-display-table (aset standard-display-table ?\C-i ; Show tabs highlighted (vector (+ ?\C-i (* (face-id 'highlight) 524288) ))))