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Bug 41247

Summary: Visible whitespace
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Paul Ruane <paul.ruane>
Component: TextAssignee: Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: platform-swt-inbox
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Paul Ruane CLA 2003-08-07 06:26:41 EDT 
With the continued convention debate over tab versus space indentation, the
result can often be a medley of both styles.

For the developer that cares, a visible whitespace feature akin to the 'set
list' feature in Vim would allow manual corrections.  The best implementation
I've seen of this is in the text-editor for Windows called TextPad.

I propose that spaces are represented by a middle dot (like the HTML &middot;),
tabs with a right arrow (&rarr; or the symbol from the TAB key cap) and the end
of line marked with a paragraph symbol (&para;).
Comment 1 Paul Ruane CLA 2003-08-13 10:42:56 EDT 
Having thought about this a little more, I think that only the tab characters 
need by switchable to visible, i.e. 'visible tabs'.  One could then assume that 
any other whitespace is a space character and the display would be less crowded.
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2003-08-15 05:46:17 EDT 

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