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: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:58:19 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87d454z7es.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254592770 30703 80.91.229.12 (3 Oct 2009 17:59:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:59:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 19:59:23 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 1Mu8t9-000141-Er for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:59:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56537 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mu8t8-0000gr-QI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mu8sd-0000Zd-Be for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mu8sY-0000WP-3k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:58:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52959 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mu8sX-0000WM-T0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:58:45 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:35687) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mu8sX-00050r-Ax for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:58:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mu8sT-0000sG-RR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:58:41 +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 ; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:58:41 +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 ; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:58:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 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:JI2pNoBp8fZoEaz4nlRKsBYwlyI= 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:68644 Archived-At: How can I make emacs show all the characters in a given line? I've been using a little function that emulates vims :l cmd. (That `:l' command in vim does show all characters in the current line) I have two little home made defuns that do the job sort of. (defun vi-list () (defun vi-nolist () But that really needs to be a toggle of one function, and made to apply to the line at point instead of the whole buffer. Even better an existing emacs function that can be made to do this.