Show tabs with a different character (Emacs)

Question

I\'d be happy to have very soft character \">>\" instead of white-space, like this:

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Answer 1

EDIT: Just realized that blank-mode is superseded by whitespace. Load this and customize whitespace-style to at least contain tabs and tabs-mark. I currently have:

(setq whitespace-style '(trailing tabs newline tab-mark newline-mark))

There is also blank-mode which allows you to achive what you want and it gives you some nice functions to cleanup the whitespace to your likings: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BlankMode