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sgp667
sgp667

Reputation: 1875

Use |... to diplay tabs in vim

I feel like I have seen someone say on the web they did this and I find it very convenient.

I am trying to display tabs as

|...

but when I enter to vim

:set listchars=tab:|.

I get following error

E474: Invalid Argument: listchars=tab:

That very odd to me is that when looking at :h listchars neither pipe nor period are mentioned as forbidden characters( while ',' and ':' are forbiden)

Does anyone know why am I getting this error, and possible how can I get around it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 369

Answers (1)

FDinoff
FDinoff

Reputation: 31439

The pipe character separates commands in vim. So you need to escape it

:set listchars=tab:\|.

Upvotes: 4

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