Julien's Blog : Show/Hide Invisible Chars in Vim

listchars lets you define replacements for unprintable characters to display in list mode. List mode can then be toggled on and off using :set list!

set listchars=tab:▸,eolnnoremap <leader>i :set list!<CR>

listchars in action

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