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vi? What about vim? (Score:2)
Vim:
And your troubles are over :)
... until you have to edit a friggin' Makefile :(
(expandtab converts tabs to their equivalent spaces. There are many similar commands to get fine-grained control over this)
Of course, if you just want to show unwanted whitespace, we have plenty of builtin ways of doing that [wikia.com].
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Major modes are major useful. (Score:2)
You mean vim isn't smart enough to know you need leading tabs in Makefiles? Hmm, too bad.
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No, Ovid just isn’t smart enough yet to tell it. :-)
From my
.vimrc:Re: (Score:1)
Oh, and the
makefiletype plugin could easily set this automatically. I don’t know why it doesn’t, but it doesn’t bother me that it does not, either.Re: (Score:2)
It's configurable on a "per filetype" basis. I just don't edit makesfiles often enough to care and I set it manually then.
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The real equivalent to what Michael is doing is called
:set list, which will render tabs as ^I. In vim but not vi you can also use thelistcharsvariable to control how tabs are rendered, as well as various other invisible things like end of line, trailing whitespace, line cut-off at screen edges, etc.