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Since I have :set list in Vim, I often see strange ^I characters in the beginning of some C-files. Are these the listchars for tabs or what do they mean?
How can I transfer that back to normal? I just want to see end-of-line characters.
They’re tabs. By default, VIM shows all control characers other than EOL as
^nwherenis the character of the alphabet corresponding to the character being shown (tab = char #9,I= 9th char in alphabet). To stop showing them, use:set nolist, but that will turn off EOL display as well.If you want to see end-of-line chars but not tabs, you can use
listcharsfor that. Use:help listcharsfor details, but roughly:That says, when showing tabs, show a space for the first virtual space it occupies and a space for the subsequent ones; when showing EOLs, use a
$. (Since tabs can span multiple virtual columns, you get to use two different chars, one for the first column, and one for the others.)