Show SOME invisible whitespace characters in Eclipse

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A long while back I transitioned to doing all my web application development in Eclipse from BBEdit  But I miss one little feature from BBEdit  I used to be able to show invisible characters like tabs but not show other invisibles like spaces  I know that I can bulk turn all of these on in Eclipse  but I wonder if there is a way to show only some invisibles in Eclipse

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Unfortunately  you can only turn on all invisible  whitespace  characters at the same time  I suggest you file an enhancement request but I doubt they will pick it up   The text component in Eclipse is very complicated as it is and they are not keen on making them even worse    UPDATE  This has been fixed in Eclipse 3 7  Go to Window   Preferences   General   Editors   Text Editors  Click on the link  whitespace characters  to fine tune what should be shown   Kudos go to John Isaacks

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I use Checkstlye plugin for such a purpose  In Checkstyle configuration  I add special regexp rules to detect lines with TABs and then mark such lines as checkstyle ERROR  which is clearly visible in Eclipse editor  Works fine

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I use Checkstlye plugin for such a purpose  In Checkstyle configuration  I add special regexp rules to detect lines with TABs and then mark such lines as checkstyle ERROR  which is clearly visible in Eclipse editor  Works fine

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Navigate to Window   Preferences   General   Editors   Text Editors  Click on the CheckBox  Show whitespace characters      Thats all

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AnyEdit Scroll all the way down  http   andrei gmxhome de anyedit examples html

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Navigate to Window   Preferences   General   Editors   Text Editors  Click on the CheckBox  Show whitespace characters      Thats all

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I would prefer to keep the  Show Whitespace  button on the toolbar  so that in one click you can toggle it   Go to Window -  Perspective -  Customize Perspective and enable to show the button on toolbar

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I would prefer to keep the  Show Whitespace  button on the toolbar  so that in one click you can toggle it   Go to Window -  Perspective -  Customize Perspective and enable to show the button on toolbar

[eclipse] Show SOME invisible/whitespace characters in Eclipse

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