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Option to show whitespace characters

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It’d be nice if we could see whitespace characters like in an IDE/code editor so it’s easier to see things like tabs vs spaces, trailing spaces, etc.


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  • State:closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Reactions:46
  • Comments:13 (8 by maintainers)

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bweston92commented, Oct 20, 2017

BitBucket do this quite well with an option to show whitespace. screenshot from 2017-10-20 08-41-30 Then you get to see faint dots like: screenshot from 2017-10-20 08-41-44

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sindresorhuscommented, Jul 7, 2017

Oh, I assumed this was about diffs only. I agree, only makes sense in diffs and CodeMirror.

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