Show space tab CRLF characters in editor of Visual Studio

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Where are the settings to show a space  tab  paragraph  CRLF  etc   extended  characters

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Display white space characters  Menu  You can toggle the visibility of the white space characters from the menu  Edit   Advanced   View White Space   Button  If you want to add the button to a toolbar  it is called Toggle Visual Space in the command category  Edit   The actual command name is  Edit ViewWhiteSpace   Keyboard Shortcut  In Visual Studio 2015  2017 and 2019 the default keyboard shortcut still is CTRL R  CTRL W Type one after the other  All default shortcuts  End-of-line characters  Extension  There is a minimal extension adding the displaying of end-of-line characters  LF and CR  to the visual white space mode  as you would expect  Additionally it supplies buttons and short-cuts to modify all line-endings in a document  or a selection  VisualStudio gallery  End of the Line  Note  Since Visual Studio 2017 there is no option in the File-menu called Advanced Save Options  Changing the encoding and line-endings for a file can be done using Save File As     and clicking the down-arrow on the right side of the save-button  This shows the option Save with Encoding  You ll be asked permission to overwrite the current file

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In the actual version this Option ist under Editor  Render Whitespace

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The shortcut didn t work for me in Visual Studio 2015  also it was not in the edit menu    Download and install the Productivity Power Tools for VS2015 and than you can find these options in the edit   advanced menu

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To see the CRLF you can try this extension  End of the Line  It works for VS2012

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Edit - gt  Advanced - gt  View White Space or Ctrl E S

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For Visual Studio for mac  you can find it under Visual Studio -  Preferences -  Text Editor -  Markers and Rulers -  Show invisible characters  Please note you may need to restart Visual Studio for the changes to take effect

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For those who are looking for a button toggle   The name of this command is View white space in GUI menu  Edit -  Advanced -  View white space      The name of this command in the Add command popup is Toggle Visual Space

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My problem was hitting CTRL F and space  This marked all spaces brown  Spent 10 minutes to  turn it off   P

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The correct shortcut is CTRL-R-W like you don t have to release CTRL button while pressing W  This worked for me in VS 2015

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Edit   Advanced   View White Space  The keyboard shortcut is CTRL R  CTRL W  The command is called Edit ViewWhiteSpace   It works in all Visual Studio versions at least since Visual Studio 2010  the current one being Visual Studio 2019  at time of writing   In Visual Studio 2013  you can also use CTRL E  S or CTRL E  CTRL S   By default  end of line markers are not visualized  This functionality is provided by the End of the Line extension

[visual-studio] Show space, tab, CRLF characters in editor of Visual Studio

Display white space characters

End-of-line characters

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