title: Unable to make gray eol character by .vimrc
body: <p>I want to have a gray eol character set by </p>
  
  <pre><code>set list listchars=tab:&gt;&gt;,trail:$
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>where there are no spaces next to the character ":"</p>
  
  <p>I get <strong>no eol character</strong> for the above code if I use no spaces next to ":". </p>
  
  <p>I get a green trailing character if I use one space at</p>
  
  <pre><code>- - tab:[space]&gt;&gt; --
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>although I have not set it up explicitly</p>
  
  <p>such that </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/175564/trailingCharacter.png" rel="noreferrer">alt text http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/175564/trailingCharacter.png</a>
  <em>(old code in terminal)</em></p>
  
  <p><strong>How can you make the eol character gray in Vim,</strong> and to make it work again?</p>