literal(1)

NAME
Literal -- show all invisible characters on the display

DESCRIPTION
The literal macro changes the way the characters in the current buffer are displayed. This makes it easier to distinguish between hard spaces and tab characters, amongst other things. Tabs are displayed as <TAB>, and the end of a line is marked with a dollar sign ($).

This macro was initially provided to allow the user to see why make complains when it finds a space at the beginning of a line and not a tab, but it is useful under other occasions.

To revert back to the normal display, simply execute the literal macro again.

MENU/KEYS
This macro can be accessed from the CRISP features menu or by typing literal at the command prompt, or by type <Ctrl-A><Ctrl-L>.

BUGS
Turning literal mode on and then off does not quite put the display mode back to what it was originally. This only affects non-ASCII characters.

DO NOT DO AN UNDO which undoes something through the display mode change as CRISP gets confused about the column numbers when the mode is changed.