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Hi all, is there any vi command to view all the special characters in a file. for example :set list shows as a dollar sign at the end of line. Similarly i want to view all the special charcters like space, tab etc. Please help

Name: fpmurphy
Date: October 14, 2007 at 06:26:19 Pacific

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No, there is no way within vi to show all the special or non-printing characters. With most versions of vi, ":set list" only causes tabs to show up as ^I and newlines to be designated by $. Use od, cat, etc to show non-printing characters.

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Define "special". I think space or tab is not special. This message was produced with 100% recycled electrons

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