turn on/off the line-ending symbols via script

Alan Kilborn

Is there a way to turn on and off the visibility of the line-ending symbols via Pythonscript? I can TOGGLE the state by coding this:

notepad.menuCommand(44026)

but I don’t see how I can:

know the current state (being shown already or not)
set it definitively to ON
set it definitively to OFF

Ideas? Thx.

Another thing: When I code it as above, it gets out of sync with the menu option View | Show Symbol | Show End of Line setting. Ideally I’d like something that I can do via Pythonscript that keeps everything in sync…

PeterJones

I had experimented with something similar, which I can easily translate into what you want . To guarantee I am in View EOL, I run two commands: first

notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_ALL_CHARACTERS)

This toggles view all characters first – whether it’s in view all on or off, I now know it is not in view eol. So I can then safely turn it on with a toggle:

notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_EOL)

Or, in one fell swoop:

notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_ALL_CHARACTERS)
notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_EOL)

Similarly, to guarantee I toggle view eol off:

notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_ALL_CHARACTERS)
notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_EOL)
notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_EOL)

You can do something similar for any of the three (VIEW_EOL, VIEW_ALL_CHARACTERS, or VIEW_TAB_SPACE) as well.

(And I see the View > Show Symbol keeping in sync…)

PeterJones

FYI, I was also just reminded that @Claudia-Frank, in this other thread, had mentioned the editor.getViewWS() and editor.getViewEOL() commands, which I keep forgetting. These answer your first step of “know the current state”, so you could base the logic of whether you issue the notepad.menuCommand() based on those editor functions.