Show tabs with a different character (Emacs)

Question

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

Mono develop http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/pictures/Valabinding-classpad.png

Answer 1

Use "M-:" (M-x eval-expression) and enter the following expression:

(let ((d (make-display-table)))
  (aset d 9 (vector ?> ?>))
  (set-window-display-table nil d))

To get back to normal enter:

(set-window-display-table nil nil)