Re: Display `tab` character with a color?

[jpkotta]

On Aug 5, 9:11 am, Tim Visher <tim.vis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm trying to display the tab character as 4 red spaces.  What do I
> need to set to do this?
>
> I already have
>
>     (standard-display-ascii ?\t "    ")
>
> in my .emacs file.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
>
> In Christ,
>
> Timmy V.
>
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http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ShowWhiteSpace

I use whitespace.el, which you could configure to do what you want.
The "Show Tabs in Modes" section of that wiki article will probably do
what you want.