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Bug 358900 - [xtend2] show whitespace characters by default
Summary: [xtend2] show whitespace characters by default
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: TMF
Classification: Modeling
Component: Xtext (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
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Reported: 2011-09-26 10:19 EDT by Stephan Herrmann CLA
Modified: 2017-07-11 14:22 EDT (History)
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Description Stephan Herrmann CLA 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 CLA 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.