Take the 2-minute tour ×  I noted that when I show up the EOL
listchars in a text the linebreaks are losen    this is my text
of this   becomes after set list ..eol   this is my text of this
mess  age(EOL CHAR)  I would like to see the EOL characters
without breaking the words at window border. Is that possible?
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down vote accepted  Unfortunately it sounds like this is a
documented limitation of Vim. From the documentation of
linebreak (the option which causes per-word line breaks instead
of per-character):   Alternate solution: highlight end-of-lines.
The simple one-time way would be to just search for them (/$).
Beyond that, you can use highlighting:  :highlight endofline
ctermbg=Green :match endofline /$/  That'll give your EOLs green
backgrounds. See :help highlight-args for more on how you can
specify the highlight.  Original answer  This is not the OP's
actual problem, but could sometimes happen, so I'll leave it
here for others to find when t