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.
Aaron Digulla
2008-12-12 21:27:59
Thanks for the tip. It's nice to know that this is probably a fixed issue. I will go ahead and search out the Eclipse issue system and file a request.
bryan kennedy
2008-12-12 23:05:02
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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.
VVSiz
2010-04-05 18:58:12