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I've turned on somehow in eclipse hidden characters. It's not he the "whitspace" characters in the general editor preferences. If I turn them on, then it adds ANOTHER layer of hidden chars over the existing one.

They have things like

\r\n

Anyone know what these are.. how to remove?

A: 

Since this is not a standard setting, it could be the result of one of your extra plugin.

  • Did you try starting your eclipse with the -clean parameter?
  • Do you reproduce the issue with a fresh Eclipse installation?
VonC
Haven't done a clean install or anything, was hoping it was just a keyboard command as I turned it on that way easy enough..
Brett
A: 

Sorry this is a bit vague but it's a while since i used Eclipse and i do not have it installed. I think this is it ..... in one of the menus you will find the Eclipse settings, there are two set's of settings, current project and overall Eclipse, you mat need to check them both. In there are various menus in tree form that allow you control the actions and look and feel. But some of them are nested so there is an overall control but some packages have their own options in a sub menu set. The menu's will expand when you click them and i'm afraid you need to walk through them all.

PurplePilot
+1  A: 

It is under Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors. There is a checkbox labeled "Show whitespace characters". If you uncheck this the editor switches back to normal.

Guido

Sandkastenliga
Hi, I thought about this before, but its actually unchecked so it is not this :|
Brett
A: 

CTRL+. does the job.

Mark Mandel
Thanks Mark, I found the solution to be {ctrl + N} ...weird but hey, happy now..
Brett