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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:21:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a5zyk3z.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 82eipkw9pd.fsf@alum.mit.edu

John A Pershing Jr <pershing@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> How can I make emacs show all the characters in a given line?
>
> Ummmm...  By default, Emacs *does* show all the characters in each
> line.  Can you give us a bit more detail on what sort of characters you
> are using, and what is (or isn't) getting displayed?
>
> Note: \x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\a...  

In the instant case I was looking for tabs in a rc file that requires
tabs and not spc... here is a sample:
(Its an rsnapshot.conf file)

There two tabs after each variable name... then the value:

  # All snapshots will be stored under this root directory.
  snapshot_root	/bk/rsnap/home
  cmd_cp		/bin/cp
  # uncomment this to use the rm program instead of the built-in perl routine
  cmd_rm		/bin/rm

Maybe its just a setting on my end and only tabs are invisible.

Do you see the two tabs by default?





  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-04  2:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.7947.1254592734.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-03 19:37 ` about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc John A Pershing Jr
2009-10-04  2:21   ` Harry Putnam [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.7980.1254622935.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-04  2:38     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-04  4:22       ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-04  4:02         ` Bernardo
2009-10-04  5:41           ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-04 22:39             ` Bernardo
2009-10-05 15:34               ` Harry Putnam
     [not found]               ` <mailman.8080.1254756945.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-06  4:25                 ` Xah Lee
2009-10-06 14:23                   ` Harry Putnam
     [not found]           ` <mailman.7984.1254634925.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-05  0:03             ` Tim X
2009-10-05 15:36               ` Harry Putnam
     [not found]               ` <mailman.8081.1254757216.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-06  6:43                 ` Tim X
2009-10-06 14:19                   ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-03 17:58 Harry Putnam

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