Show whitespace characters in gvim

Question

Is there an easy way to display whitespace characters such as space and tab in gvim? Something like what is implemented in Gedit, Geany, Komodo, and other GUI editors where

Answer 1

This works well for me:

"trailing white space detection
highlight WhitespaceEOL ctermbg=yellow guibg=yellow
match WhitespaceEOL /\s\+$/