Summary:
I am receiving the following error for having the below line in my .vimrc file
Error:
E474: Invalid argument: listchars=tab:»·,trail:·
.vimrc:
set list listchars=tab:»·,trail:·
I have researched this and it appears to have something to do with UTF-8 encoding being properly set.
System Setup:
lsb_release:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Locale:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=en_US
Solution:
Place the following lines at the top of the .vimrc the error mentions:
.vimrc:
scriptencoding utf-8
set encoding=utf-8
None of the other solutions worked for me.
My listchars
looks like this:
listchars=eol:~,tab:>.,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:<,space:_
The problem was that my Vim is too old for the space:
parameter in listchars
. As we can read in this post (I modified the quote to make it more readable):
space:
was added tolistchars
inv7.4.710
on 2015-04-21 by Bram. The stock Debian install of Vim doesn't offerspace:
.
The removal of the trailing ,space:_
solves the problem.
Well, as 816-8055 suggests you might use if has()
in your vimrc:
if has("patch-7.4.710")
listchars=eol:~,tab:>.,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:<,space:_
else
listchars=eol:~,tab:>.,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:<
endif
Just placing set encoding=utf8
anywhere in my _vimrc, but before set lcs=tab:>-,trail:·,nbsp:·,extends:>,precedes:<
solved it
Not a real solution to your specific problem, but another (non-utf8-safe) way might be just to use ASCII chars, like this:
set listchars=tab:>-,trail:.,precedes:<,extends:>
If you have UTF-8 available, Justins solution is the better one of course.
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