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What is the setting to hide invisible characters, but to display invisible characters in visual mode?

I like to hide characters as TAB (visible-mode off). However, when highlighting text to yank, it would be nice to see these invisible characters in the highlighted line. Is this possible?

I am using evil-mode.

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  • What do invisible characters have to do with evil? Do you mean visible-mode rather than visual-mode? Do you mean any character hidden by text properties, or are you talking about "zero-width" unicode characters? Please clarify your question (preferably with examples).
    – phils
    Commented Aug 18 at 0:05
  • Are you by any chance looking for whitespace-mode?
    – cochrane12
    Commented Aug 18 at 0:14
  • The question is unclear. Specify what you mean by invisible characters, etc. Emacs has different ways of making text invisible.
    – Drew
    Commented Aug 18 at 1:27
  • Based on your edits, the "simplest" hack I can think of is to make an alternative font which is a copy of your regular font, but with the "invisible" characters rendered in the way you want. Then assign that font to the region face in Emacs. It's a brute-force approach, but should be pretty effective.
    – phils
    Commented Aug 19 at 10:05

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