Manny Adumbire
Reputation: 396
Vi Showing Extra Characters ( *>> ) where spaces should be
I've been using vim from the past few months and am trying to make it my go-to text editor for all text files.
I recently downloaded the most recent version of WordPress and noticed that all the files display a character sequence( »·»·»·»·) where a space is expected.
How can I change this to show spaces instead?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 418
Answers (1)
Andy Ray
Reputation: 32076
It's highlighting tab characters, not spaces. Turn it off with :set nolist. You can also see what hidden characters are configured to show with :set listchars?
Upvotes: 4
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