From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bernardo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:39:08 +1100 Message-ID: <4AC9240C.2000907@pobox.com> References: <82eipkw9pd.fsf@alum.mit.edu> <87y6nrvq78.fsf@galatea.local> <87ws3bwzy2.fsf@newsguy.com> <4AC81E68.2080307@pobox.com> <87skdzwwah.fsf@newsguy.com> Reply-To: bernardo.bacic@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254699635 31877 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2009 23:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 23:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 01:40:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Muagl-0005ee-EK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50383 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Muagl-0003np-Bs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:40:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MuagM-0003nG-Gw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MuagI-0003iy-0B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46365 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MuagH-0003im-TF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:39:57 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:40973 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MuagH-0004N7-Hu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:39:57 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD0844BC22 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 2009 19:39:56 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=message-id :date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh= TVDO+XBQFdBj35wJt00U4BSRSZw=; b=CjFHQsQmpF+29BKM3P1SAUIK8Ltf5Uxi JlsdbotGPY7SveuuhmgJFjZXepYUSDZ85q/aE2KBsAd32y0E3jYRgSlNFGuizgm0 4IMazKnmCFCKyLYeUlS2kdBHiDChOa5aRrsPUptsMXjMto40/CGJzGJ4KMqbe+JG UoXrynHsFp8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=message-id:date :from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=gO3CUC 8OP9qlbJonF/cq5FbxD3G0r09NqRJcKLnle5P31++xE3YNufaiBiuthlv/q6DRUj Vbdt6qfeESmJN5wqF1MiSIKFpsOYcvCFYseKnhMepkIJ84QQkpWiMLIenxv8Z9hn 8Qe17Y/pfCOmveNnTGP3W05VsnG5CxpQC8d+M= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E284BC20 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 2009 19:39:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (unknown [115.70.111.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 422554BC1F for ; Sun, 4 Oct 2009 19:39:55 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090812) In-Reply-To: <87skdzwwah.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 39348762-B13F-11DE-BE92-92E639D9C332-14340206!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68669 Archived-At: >> does M-x apropos RET whitespace RET >> list whitespace-mode? > > yes... (thanks) under global-whitespace-mode >>>From what it says apparently if you have global-whitespace-mode on you > should have a WS on mode line that toggles `visualization' on/off. > > I have that. `WS' with it on... what am I supposed to see? if you * start Emacs with -Q command line option * switch to *scratch* buffer * type global-whitespace-mode RET * type C-q TAB do you see anything different? BTW are you running Emacs in a terminal or as an (X) windows application?