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Nope, I don't know of any way around that. You can change the background color for comments, but it won't distinguish between spaces, tabs, or any other characters. So that's another reason why suggestion wouldn't work well as a permanent solution.

Well, I suppose you could add a color group to the wordfile called something like "Tabs", then input a tab for its only keyword, then select a background color for that color group (making sure to uncheck the "Background Color Automatic" checkbox). Of course, this would only work with syntax highlig...