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ShowSpaces : Highlight indentation characters if they contain spaces, even mixed with tabs

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created by
Laurent Georget
 
script type
syntax
 
description
Vim-ShowSpaces is a Vim plugin which highlights the indentation characters when
spaces are used, even when spaces and tabs are mixed. It is useful to enforce
the use of tabulations in a project instead of spaces, or even worse, mixed
tabulations and spaces.

The highlighting can be activated on a per filetype basis.

READ THE DOCUMENTATION (or at least the README)! The plugin does not highlight
anything by default. You need to 'let g:showSpaces=1'  somewhere (preferably inside a
ftplugin/ local config file).

Sources are available on github: https://github.com/guiniol/vim-showspaces.git
The project is under BSD-2 clauses license. (See file LICENSE in the archive).
 
install details
If you don't have a preferred installation method, I recommend installing
pathogen.vim, and then simply copy and paste:

  cd ~/.vim/bundle
  git clone git://github.com/guiniol/vim-showspaces.git

If you are a Vundle user, the following will probably work, although it was not
tested:

Add Bundle 'guiniol/vim-showspaces' to your |vimrc| and then:

  - either within Vim: :BundleInstall
  - or in your shell: vim +BundleInstall +qall

If you use NeoBundle, do the following:

Add NeoBundle 'guiniol/vim-showspaces.git' to your vimrc and then:

  - either within Vim: :NeoBundleInstall
  - or in your shell: vim +NeoBundleInstall +qall

If you feel adventurous, you can also put yourself the files in the right directories after decompressing the archive, they are not too numerous.
 

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package script version date Vim version user release notes
vim-showspaces-1.0.tar.gz 1.0 2015-03-30 7.0 Laurent Georget Initial upload
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