[PLUG] vim: brown spaces

Paul Mullen pm at nellump.net
Wed Nov 22 06:20:47 UTC 2006


On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:16:18PM -0800, Charles Sliger wrote:
> When I edit a file using vim, the space characters are displayed as
> brown blocks.
> 
> Is there a way to tell vim to display the space character as
> whitspace?

If you have search pattern highlighting enabled, and your last search
was for whitespace (unusual, but it happens), then that could be the
cause.  Run a new search for something highly unlikely (e.g.,
"asdfasdf"), or disable search highlighting (":nohlsearch").

-- 
Paul



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