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Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc
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Harry Putnam |
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Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:34:54 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@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.fsf@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,
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- Re: about showing all characters including non-printable, control etc, Xah Lee, 2009/10/06
- 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