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: How to show all characters in a specific line Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:16:00 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87a92334hb.fsf@reader.local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420060595 7948 80.91.229.3 (31 Dec 2014 21:16:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 21:16:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 31 22:16:28 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 1Y6Qd1-0006cJ-Ov for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:16:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41403 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6Qd0-0001ab-Vg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6Qcq-0001aT-93 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:16:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6Qcn-0005Zp-4b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:16:16 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36620) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6Qcm-0005Yw-UQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:16:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6Qcl-0006Nr-NB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:16:11 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net ([76.97.127.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:16:11 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:16:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8PkzzsRLkeDPQPxSfUnsdiPRMyQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:101811 Archived-At: How to show all characters such as \t and any others, printable or not. What I'm after specifically is to find a piece of code I once snagged probably here... long ago. It worked like the :l (:el) command in vim In vi/vim on any line and in Command mode if you press :l you will see any \t, newline and etc. Great for conf files that require tabs between elements or anywhere you don't want space before the newline. Someone helped me write that or at least edit existing code to suite. Can anyone point me in the right direction... perhaps there are existing emacs commands that do the same thing?