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I'd be happy to have very soft character ">>" instead of white-space, like this:
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How can I achieve that in Emacs?
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To manually insert a tab in Emacs, use ctrl-Q TAB. control-Q causes the next key to be inserted rather than interpreted as a possible command.
To replace tabs with the appropriate number of spaces, use M-x untabify . To do the reverse and convert multiple spaces to tabs, you can use M-x tabify . Both commands work on a region. To run on the whole buffer use a prefix argument (i.e. C-u M-x untabify ).
This is because standard tabs are set to eight spaces. Tabs are special characters.
EDIT: Just realized that blank-mode is superseded by whitespace. Load this and customize whitespace-style to at least contain tabs and tabs-mark. I currently have:
(setq whitespace-style '(trailing tabs newline tab-mark newline-mark)) There is also blank-mode which allows you to achive what you want and it gives you some nice functions to cleanup the whitespace to your likings: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BlankMode
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On my Emacs version (24.3) no additional modules are needed. It's enough to launch
M-x whitespace-mode To customize go to whitespace-style variable help,
C-h C-h v whitespace-style This mode has many functionalities. To made it simpler one may choose not to use `Face visualization'.
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