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Bug 358900

Summary:	[xtend2] show whitespace characters by default
Product:	[Modeling] TMF	Reporter:	Stephan Herrmann <stephan.herrmann>
Component:	Xtext	Assignee:	Project Inbox <tmf.xtext-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	2.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Stephan Herrmann

2011-09-26 10:19:01 EDT

It seems that indentation produced from rich strings is easily confused
if the sources contain a mix of single space characters and tabs.
Unfortunately, the warnings and quickfixes typically appear in wrong
positions in this case.

While ideally I would wish that invisible differences don't make a difference
I can imagine this to be quite hard.

To help in this situation I suggest to enable "Show Whitespace Characters"
in xtend2 editors by default. If possible this should be done without
affecting other editors.

Comment 1 Karsten Thoms

2017-07-11 14:22:14 EDT

Although I agree that it usually makes sense to enable whitespace when editing rich strings in Xtend, the show whitespace option is a general text editor preference. I don't think that we should make this different for Xtend editor only. I'm not aware of any other code editor that allows this configuration independent from workspace preferences.