Why whitespace denotation of blocks doesn't work.

[Toby J Sargeant]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 01:05:13AM +0000, Neil Hodgson wrote:
>    You can change the colour to silver to make it less heavy. Or hack the
> code to any colour you want. Originally tabs where displayed as round
> cornered rectangles but Mark thought this was too heavy. Perhaps vertical
> lines at the start of tabs instead would be lighter and make it easy to
> match up code.
> 
>    Neil

I saw a screenshot once of a vim session that used the » (ascii 0273)
character to display tabs. It was actually very visually appealing, and I was
a little annoyed when I failed to get emacs to do the same thing.

Toby.