Atom style hidden characters in Vim

Moved here from original gist

To show hidden characters in Vim and use the same display icons as Atom IDE.

Place the following in your ~/.vimrc

" Show hidden characters and use Atom style.
set list
set listchars=tab:»\ ,eol:¬,space:.

Update: 2021-02-02: Include example for Atom and VS Code.

VS Code ~/.config/Code/User/settings.json

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",

Atom ~/.atom/config.cson

  editor:
    showInvisibles: true