Seeing spaces and tabs in vim

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Normally we cannot differentiate between spaces and tabs in vim. However, if visualzing the difference between space and tab is important, we can use following:

:set lcs=space:_,tab:>~ list

Refer:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61221579/how-to-view-tabs-spaces-and-various-tab-related-settings-in-vim

There is older article on this at Seeing whitespaces in vim

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