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How to show all white spaces as a character?
:set list will show all whitespaces as a character. Everything but a space will look different than its normal state, which means that if you still see a plain old space, it’s really a plain old space.
What are the syntax highlighting rules for whitespace?
These are syntax highlighting rules for the Whitespace programming language – tabs show in green and spaces in red. 🙂 Can be combined with :set list as mentioned by many other answers, although the tabs will then show as ^I without a green higlight, but the spaces will show in red.
Why do I need whitespace mode in Emacs?
Many other editors like Kate and Eclipse have this feature and I find it very useful to see when code is indent-broken because of mix of spaces and tabs (particularly Python). WhiteSpace mode is an Emacs minor mode for visualizing all white space characters in the current buffer.
Is there a way to show whitespace in listchars?
Now, there isn’t an explicit option which you can use to show whitespace, but in listchars, you could set a character to show for everything BUT whitespace. For example, mine looks like this
Which is the default whitespace mode in Emacs?
This page is about making particular whitespace characters stand out better. Emacs comes with a standard solution: M-x whitespace-mode. See WhiteSpace. GNU Emacs 24 has internal variable ‘nobreak-char-display’ (turned on by default), which highlights hard space and hard hyphen characters.
How to show whitespace in a text file?
Here’s an example from one of my personal projects. First a look at the file without whitespace visualisation: Then, when whitespace is visualised… You can see where tab stops are (represented by ^I ). Spaces remain as spaces. You can also see where a beginning and end of line are.
Why are trailing whitespace characters not removed in Win32?
The trailing whitespace characters are not removed.File and Folder names that begin or end with a whitespace character are enumerated differently by the Win32 and WinRT APIs due to ecosystem requirements. There are various whitespace characters representing various ‘space’ widths (glyphs).