VIM中奇怪的制表符

Question

I am having issue figuring out what this weird white block of characters are. Anyone know how I can get rid of it? Thanks!

http://s11.postimg.org/kas9430gz/vimtab.png

UPDATE: Thanks to romanil's comment. It is Indent Guides.

Answer 1

Take a look at http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Hex_dump

If you run the vi command

:%!xxd

It should convert the buffer into a hexdump and you should be able to see exactly what characters they correspond to.

Answer 2

It's hard to tell from the image, but maybe there isn't a special character at all. Vim highlights characters in certain conditions—eg, search results or matching braces—which may look like this depending on your configuration. You could turn off syntax highlighting using

:syntax off

or view the file in another program (eg, less ) to see if that's causing the issue. If that doesn't help, you can always clean your file of any fancy characters using

:%s,[^\t -~],,g

Note that this will remove any accented characters as well.