How to display and search TAB character in VIM?

[linq936]

Hi,

Is there a handy command to display all the TAB characters in a file?
And for a large file, is there a way I can search it in VIM?

Thanks.

[RalfB]

:set list

/\t

hth

Ralf

[Tim Roberts]

linq936 <lin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Is there a handy command to display all the TAB characters in a file?
>And for a large file, is there a way I can search it in VIM?

One easy way is ":set list". It also shows other control characters, but
it may be exactly what you need. Turn it off with ":set nolist".

If that doesn't do it, you can do / C-V C-I (slash control-V control-I) to
search for a tab character. If you have highlighting turned on, that will
highlight the blank spaces that contain a tab.
--
Tim Roberts, ti...@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.