Where are these dots coming from? How to get rid of them?

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Where are these dots coming from? How to get rid of them?

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Those dots represent space characters. You will also see little arrows for tabs, and little hooked arrows for carriage returns.

Press CTRL + R + W to toggle the dots you're seeing.

BTW this is a standard Visual Studio feature. It has nothing to do with CodeRush or any other plugin.

EDIT As Martin points out, you could press CTRL + R, then CTRL + W. Personally I press CTRL then hold it down for the R & W keystrokes. It's less typing.

Drew Noakes 2009-10-06 13:16:55

should be Ctrl-R, Ctrl-W

M4N 2009-10-06 13:18:20

Thank you! Thank you! One day they just appeared! I must have smacked some additional keys at one time or another! Thanks again!

mattruma 2009-10-06 13:23:07

You're welcome. I use that shortcut on occasion to see whether a file is filled with tabs or spaces. I can imagine they'd be pretty annoying if they were visible all the time :)

Drew Noakes 2009-10-06 13:32:30

Thank you - I managed to hit that key by accident, and it was driving me crazy trying to reverse it!

Gravitas 2010-07-09 16:23:22

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