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Show Invisibles Does Not Show Spaces

Open bobrocke opened this issue 10 years ago • 4 comments

Show invisibles does not show tabs or spaces. At least not for me. He's the screenshot of an HTML file with "show invisibles" on. You can see the return characters, but no spaces. There are spaces in there.

spaces

bobrocke avatar Apr 20 '14 19:04 bobrocke

During the alphas it did show spaces, with a one pixel dot. People complained it was too annoying. Can't win!

atg avatar May 27 '14 01:05 atg

@fileability optional config? O:)

locks avatar May 27 '14 08:05 locks

@fileability I can imagine the frustration. But show invisibles is supposed to be annoying and why one toggles it on and off as needed.

If you do much work with YAML, you'll need it. YAML wants a certain number of spaces and no tabs - you need to see what's there.

bobrocke avatar May 27 '14 10:05 bobrocke

Most modern programmer's editors have the ability to display spaces with invisibles because of the need to double check for the presence/absence of those pesky spaces.

See also https://github.com/atg/chocolat-public/issues/1371.

@atg, can this be included in a update as a toggle?

bobrocke avatar Apr 12 '17 12:04 bobrocke