From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:21:36 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <873a5zyk3z.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <82eipkw9pd.fsf@alum.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254622965 4023 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2009 02:22:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 02:22:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 04 04:22:38 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 1MuGk8-00050t-Rd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:22:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MuGk8-0006e7-5O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MuGjm-0006ds-F1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:22:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MuGjh-0006cZ-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:22:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55913 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MuGjh-0006cU-Kw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47170) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MuGjh-0008Ji-AA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MuGje-0004wC-85 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:22:06 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:22:06 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:22:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hKlRiX0S//o2nng8kgRgCg+OcUQ= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:68658 Archived-At: John A Pershing Jr writes: > Harry Putnam 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: ... 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?