From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:38:19 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87y6nrvq78.fsf@galatea.local> 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254624060 5935 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2009 02:41:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 02:41:00 +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 04:40:53 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 1MuH1p-00088v-AT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:40:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MuH1o-0008I2-Mg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:40:52 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Trace: individual.net tFbgS50j/IzxldeAp0VvBwJGoeJIQhLIpAotWIDjmeanoDTpzZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:MzM2ODg4NzY2ZWY1MTg5NTVkNzg4YjdhOTUxNmYzMTIwMjhjZjIxZg== sha1:n2IxJif6dlVnzyMHMAAUNYUNBL0= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173550 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:68659 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > 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: =01=02=03=04=05=06=07...=20=20 > > 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 rou= tine > 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? Well, there shouldn't be tabs in text files (but Makefiles, as a legacy exception). Use M-x untabify RET to replace them by spaces. Now, you can use M-x whitespace-global-mode RET and toggle on the M-x whitespace-toggle-spacetab-check RET that will show you when there are spaces before tabs. You could modify the whitespace-spacetab-regexp to match any sequence of space and tab containing at least one tab, or just tabs. --=20 __Pascal Bourguignon__