Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing
| Summary: | Show spaces and tabs as symbols | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Jozef S. <selesi> |
| Component: | Text | Assignee: | Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | billy.biggs, pombredanne |
| Version: | 3.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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There should be an option to show spaces, tabs and possibly other non-printable characters as symbols. When there are strict code style guidelines, this would make it much simpler to check if there are any spaces before newline characters, if there are any spaces where only tabs should be present, or if visually empty lines contain any non-printable symbols. I am currently forced to use a different editor to do final code inspection before committing. The KDE project's Kate editor has an excellent implementation of this feature, and I encourage any developer who works on this to check it out. Here's a simplified example of how it looks like (it actually doesn't use a dot, but a different symbol): . This begins with a tab; . . Two tabs on this line; This line has three spaces at its beginning; . This line begins with a space and a tab; . This line begins with four spaces and a tab; ... The previous line has three spaces before the newline character. This line has a space before the newline character;.