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Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc
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Xah Lee |
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Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Oct 2009 21:25:02 -0700 (PDT) |
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G2/1.0 |
if you are using emacs 23, whitespace-mode is bundled.
See:
• How To Use And Setup Emacs's whitespace-mode
http://xahlee.org/emacs/whitespace-mode.html
Xah
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On Oct 5, 8:34 am, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Bernardo <bernardo.ba...@pobox.com> writes:
> >>> 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?
>
> emacs in X
>
> As I've mentioned ... I already have the mode on as evidenced by the
> WS in the mode line... and sure enough I see cool syntax highlight on
> tabs in scratch buffer... however I don't normally read News and Mail
> in the scratch buffer.
>
> I was testing on the snippet from a rc file in this thread
>
> If you go to one of the replies in this thread that has the snippet
> from a rc file...(This one does):
>
> Message-ID: <87y6nrvq78....@galatea.local>
>
> And paste it here below. Do you see tabs there... I don't.
> Yet if you run over the uncommented lines with arrow keys you will see
> they are there.
>
> > # 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
> > routine
> > cmd_rm /bin/rm
>
> That was my error... I should have opened one of the rc files instead
> of checking the snippet in a News message.
>
> When I do open the actual rc file... I see the tabs marked.
>
> But going back to my original comments... comparing to the :l command
> in vim... that would show the tabs regardless of type of buffer.
>
> I guess that's what I expected global-whitespace-mode to do too, but it
> doesn't.
>
> for example... using my home made vi-list functions (That someone on
> this list.. wrote yrs ago)... shows them in this message (or anywhere
> else... I think) no trick modes that might or might not do the job
> involved.
>
> (defun vi-list ()
> "Simulate a :set list in Vi."
> (interactive)
> (standard-display-ascii ?\t "^I")
> (standard-display-ascii ?\n "$\n")
> )
>
> (defun vi-nolist ()
> "Simulate a :set nolist in Vi."
> (interactive)
> (standard-display-ascii ?\t "\t")
> (standard-display-ascii ?\n "\n")
> )
>
> Apparently global-whitespace-mode is disabled in message mode some
> how. Maybe others too.
>
> How can I turn those two defuns (vi-list, vi-nolist) into a toggle?
> So I can turn it on off with one key combo.
- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, John A Pershing Jr, 2009/10/03
- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Harry Putnam, 2009/10/03
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- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2009/10/03
- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Harry Putnam, 2009/10/04
- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Bernardo, 2009/10/04
- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Harry Putnam, 2009/10/04
- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Bernardo, 2009/10/04
- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Harry Putnam, 2009/10/05
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- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Harry Putnam, 2009/10/06
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- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, A.Politz, 2009/10/04
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- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Tim X, 2009/10/04
- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Harry Putnam, 2009/10/05
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- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Tim X, 2009/10/06
- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Harry Putnam, 2009/10/06