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    • Omar GamelogicO
      Omar Gamelogic
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      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.

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      • Scott SumnerS
        Scott Sumner @Omar Gamelogic
        last edited by

        @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…

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        • Omar GamelogicO
          Omar Gamelogic
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          I’m more interested on the carriage return / line feed characters, the others are fine.

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          • Scott SumnerS
            Scott Sumner @Omar Gamelogic
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            @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.

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