Re: visible-whitespace-mode

[Richard Stallman]

    > That doesn't seem to display tabs as their proper width -- the resulting
    > `>>>>' glyphs are _always_ tab-width characters long, regardless of
    > position (unlike tabs, who's width varies depending on the column in
    > which they start).

    Yeah... I don't know if that is possible.  I can only replace the tab with a
    specific glyph, I don't really have a way to change the glyph on the fly...

That is a pretty grave flaw.  If one of the other techniques does
not have an equally grave flaw, it would be better.