In Notepad++ there is an amazingly handy button I can press to see symbols where spaces, tabs, and newlines are so I can see which whitespaces are caused by spaces and which are caused by tabs. Can I do this in emacs? If not, how does one generally go about testing in emacs whether a file you are reading separates strings by spaces or tabs?
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A:
The WhiteSpace package does this. It will show tab, space and newline combinations in your code.
Some alternatives exist.
Brian Agnew
2009-08-13 23:25:02
This package is bundled with Emacs 23, for older versions download and install.
Trey Jackson
2009-08-13 23:31:13
i don't see a clear explanation on that page for how to activate whitespace mode? what's the command?
hatorade
2009-08-13 23:49:48
@hatorade `M-x whitespace-mode`
Török Gábor
2009-08-14 09:59:56