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Bug 107936

Summary: Ability to view hidden characters while text editing (tabs, spaces, etc.)
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Mark A. Ziesemer <bugs>
Component: TextAssignee: Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Hidden Characters made Visible none

Description Mark A. Ziesemer CLA 2005-08-24 16:58:32 EDT 
I'd like the ability to view "hidden characters" / "visible spaces" while text 
editing, a feature common to most text editors e.g. TextPad, EditPlus, even MS 
Word.  Currently, I need to use something like Checkstyle to find extra 
characters I don't want in my source code, e.g. extra spaces at the ends of 
lines, etc.

I will attach a screenshot as an example.

(Forgive me if this is a duplicate, but after repeated searches, I was unable 
to find anything related to this.)
Comment 1 Mark A. Ziesemer CLA 2005-08-24 17:01:54 EDT 
Created attachment 26428 [details]
Hidden Characters made Visible
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2005-08-25 02:40:50 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22712 ***