<![CDATA[Whitespace characters replacement]]>Hello,

I want to know if it’s possible to chance the whitespace characters on notepad++

For instance, I see this

notepad++ white characters

But it feels too highlighted and cumbersome.

Monodevelop use very neat characters and coloring:

monodevelop white characters

You can see they don’t get in the way of your code and they are still there.

I like to program with them enabled, but in notepad++ it’s impossible to have them activated.

I hope you have a solution for this.

Cheers.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/12693/whitespace-characters-replacementRSS for NodeWed, 22 Jul 2026 22:28:18 GMTTue, 08 Nov 2016 17:35:56 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Whitespace characters replacement on Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:18:25 GMT]]>@Omar-Gamelogic

In that case, see the “View” menu -> “Show Symbol” submenu options. There you have:

Show Whitespace and TAB
Show End of Line
Show All Characters

If you set it to only “Show Whitespace and TAB”, then I think you’ll be happy with the result.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19115https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19115Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:18:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Whitespace characters replacement on Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:48:05 GMT]]>I’m more interested on the carriage return / line feed characters, the others are fine.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19112https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19112Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:48:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Whitespace characters replacement on Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:22:55 GMT]]>@Omar-Gamelogic

Maybe the designers are trying to discourage the use of tab characters by making the visible version annoying? :)

I think that if I ever worked anywhere that allowed tab characters in their source code, I would agree with you and wouldn’t be able to have visible whitespace turned on. As it is, however, I like seeing visible SPACE characters, and I actually have to INCREASE the default level of highlight for them using a Pythonscript command, because the default is just too weak.

Sorry but I don’t think there is an easy solution for you with the visible tab characters…

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19104https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19104Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:22:55 GMT