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From: jpkotta <jpkotta@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display `tab` character with a color?
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:36:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b42693c-cfd9-4462-9e70-fb91e5006842@f37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3946.1249481476.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Aug 5, 9:11 am, Tim Visher <tim.vis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm trying to display the tab character as 4 red spaces.  What do I
> need to set to do this?
>
> I already have
>
>     (standard-display-ascii ?\t "    ")
>
> in my .emacs file.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
>
> In Christ,
>
> Timmy V.
>
> http://burningones.com/http://five.sentenc.es/- Spend less time on e-mail

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ShowWhiteSpace

I use whitespace.el, which you could configure to do what you want.
The "Show Tabs in Modes" section of that wiki article will probably do
what you want.


       reply	other threads:[~2009-08-07 19:36 UTC|newest]

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2009-08-05 14:11 Display `tab` character with a color? Tim Visher

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