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Bug 25428 - Visibles in Eclipse
Summary: Visibles in Eclipse
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22712
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Text-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2002-10-26 21:24 EDT by Arménio Pinto CLA
Modified: 2003-10-15 04:49 EDT (History)
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Description Arménio Pinto CLA 2002-10-26 21:24:14 EDT
It would be very usefull if Eclipse code editing supported the concept 
of "visibles", like many other editors do. It's the only thing I miss.

"Visible" are whitespace characters (like tab and space) that show in the 
editor as other characters. For example, tabs might show up as "»" and spaces 
as ".", for example. This way, I'm certain that a given indentation is the one 
I desire, and not another one with tabs and spaces all mixed up.

It would also be usefull if we could configure the character bindings between 
the whitespace and the shown characters, and also if we could configure the 
color to be used.

As I said, I normally use "»" for tabs and "." for spaces, showing as a very 
soft gray, like RGB 230,230,230 or something.

Thanks for your attention,

Arménio Pinto
Comment 1 Sebastian Davids CLA 2003-06-08 07:33:54 EDT
dup of Bug 22712
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2003-10-15 04:49:57 EDT

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