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getting a tab char hilighted

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 5:20 am
by leegold
In a text (.txt) file I can press the button to have tabs, end of lines, spaces
show up. The tab is a little > symbol. I have been wanting to make the symbol more visiable, in big comples tab delimited files they are to faint by default. So I want to syntax hilite the tab symbols. I know there's a *.txt syn file but how do I get a special char like those tabs hilited??? I have emailed textpad many times in the past to get the tab symbol more robust.

Thanks

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 7:16 am
by CyberSlug
I've never found a way to highlight tabs or spaces in the syntax file :-(
And I, too, want customization of the "visible spaces" feature.

According to the help file they should appear as
· Space
» Tab
¶ Line break
However, as long as I can recall they've shown up as follows (picture):
Image

Anyone know what's up?

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 1:04 pm
by MudGuard
Just set more obvious colors in the color settings of your document class.

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 12:52 pm
by leegold
Great.
Could you tell me how to make tabs highted or a different color.
How do I do it? It's very im portant that I be able to see tabs
clearly. And they have a very faint hard to see symbol and I can't
see in a complex text/db dump file.

Please tell me how.

Thanks