As others have said, you could use which will, in combination with display invisible characters.Now, there isn’t an explicit option which you can use to show whitespace, but in listchars, you could set a character to show for everything BUT whitespace. For example, mine looks like this so, now, after you use everything that isn’t explicitly shown … Read more
As has been pointed out in a couple of other answers, the preferred method now is NOT to use smartindent, but instead use the following (in your .vimrc): In your [.vimrc:][1] file: The help files take a bit of time to get used to, but the more you read, the better Vim gets: Even better, you … Read more
To convert existing tabs to spaces, press Edit->Blank Operations->TAB to Space. If in the future you want to enter spaces instead of tab when you press tab key: Go to Settings->Preferences…->Language (since version 7.1) or Settings->Preferences…->Tab Settings (previous versions) Check Replace by space (Optional) You can set the number of spaces to use in place of a Tab by changing the Tab … Read more