Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc

[Bernardo]

> > does M-x apropos RET whitespace RET
> > list whitespace-mode?
>
> yes... (thanks) under global-whitespace-mode
> > From what it says apparently if you have global-whitespace-mode on you
> should have a WS on mode line that toggles `visualization' on/off.
>
> I have that. `WS' with it on... what am I supposed to see?
if you
* start Emacs with -Q command line option
* switch to *scratch* buffer
* type global-whitespace-mode RET
* type C-q TAB
do you see anything different?

BTW are you running Emacs in a terminal or as an (X) windows application?