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In vi you can type :set list and all tabs will shown as ^I and the end of line will be shown as $. Type :set nolist to go back to a normal display.

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Re: Re: Viewing metasymbols in output?
by Hofmator (Curate) on Aug 07, 2001 at 19:20 UTC

    I just add that in vim there is also :help 'listchars' to give you further control on what to display for a tab, eol and trailing spaces.

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