I've been using list/listchars for a few years and have come to really like it: set listchars=tab:»·,trail:· set list That will show tabs with a little do

I've been using list/listchars for a few years and have come to really like it: set listchars=tab:»·,trail:· set list That will show tabs with a little double arrow and trailing dots, and show whitespace past the end of the line with dots. Regardless, with coffee being default in Rails 3.1, I'm sure editor support will show up quickly. For the time being though, I just stumbled onto this: https://github.com/kchmck/vim-coffee-script https://github.com/kchmck/vim-coffee-script (have not tried it myself).