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How do I see those invisible characters in emacs or vim ? In emacs I thought that whitespace-mode would do the trick but apparently it doesn't.

• Izkata 8y ago
  vim (7.4) seems to display them by default. With my whole vimrc commented out (just to be sure it wasn't a setting I changed), I get this: F<200b>or exam<200b>ple, I’ve ins<200b>erted 10 ze<200b>ro-width spa<200b>ces in<200b>to thi<200b>s sentence, c<200b>an you tel<200b><200b>l? (The <200b> is also highlighted a different color than the rest of the text, and acts like a single character when moving the cursor through it. It's really, really obvious.)
  • plesn 8y ago
    Indeed, I copy-pasted in emacs but not in vim, my bad...
• lucb1e 8y ago
  To view it, I used: echo "Ctrl+V" | hd Which makes a hexdump. Easily visible there. If you're looking for Vim or Emacs specifically, I don't know.
• westal 8y ago
  In emacs those characters are by default visible as one-pixel wide spaces, to make them more apparent eval (update-glyphless-char-display 'glyphless-char-display-control '((format-control . empty-box) (no-font . hex-code))).