[ale] Make emacs show "invisible" characters

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 17:22 +0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

> 
> If you want to view it in emacs, you can install the
> blank-mode package:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/blank-mode_package
> 


It looks interesting, though it doesn't seem to discern between
DOS/Mac/UNIX newline modes.  There is some sort of a customization
interface, but I certainly don't understand it.  :-/


> 
> William Bagwell replied:
> > ... Recently needed to do something similar, and resorted
> > to using a hex editor.
> 
> You mean you entered hexl-mode inside of emacs, right? :)
> 


Now, now.  That is a gem!  I didn't even know that existed.  I should
have.  It will be highly useful (I hate using xxd...)

    -- Mike

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