Hi,

i would like to see tabs/spaces/linebreak when i select text (just like in textmate or e).
Maybe i’m the only one that likes this, but is this planned?

It’s on the todo list, but probably not for 1.04 atm.

An option to see spaces, tabs, and line-ending control characters is very handy, and is one of the (other) things I miss coming from SciTE. There are often problems with line endings when doing cross-platform development, and many tools are sensitive to them. Ideally it would be nice to edit a file in any of three modes: CR LF CRLF (Mac, UNIX, DOS) line endings. Plugins can certainly be used to clean up or convert line endings, as long as the editor is happy with maintaining the selected style.

You can see and change the current line ending type on the bottom right of the status bar.

Sublime Text doesn’t support files with mixed line ending types - it selects the most common line ending in the file as the line ending to use. There’s no API to change the line ending type from a plugin, but I’m happy to added it if anyone needs it.

(As an aside, line endings are normalised on load, so that from the perspective of a plugin, each line is terminated with a ‘\n’, irrespective of the format used on disk).

Yow! That was a fast feature addition – I guess I’ll have to turn View Statusbar back on! (I was looking for the line endings feature in the menus, so that’s probably why I missed it.)

The

feature means there are no mixed line endings in saved files I assume. This would make it pointless to show individual line endings.

So, I guess it’s just spaces and tabs we’d like to see; myel’s request and todo list entry get my +1.

Thanks!

– e

I just wanted to drop into this thread and say that I, too, would like visible spaces.

(I’m using Markdown, where trailing whitespace on a line can be significant.)

Big +1 from me. I am really use to seeing the white space characters at the beginning and end of lines. I don’t want to have to highlight text to see it.

+1 for me too, particularly regarding displaying end-of-line so that I can visually catch extraneous trailing whitespace. Textmate has Show/Hide Invisibles, which displays a subtle little gray character at the end of each line. I always have that turned on and don’t find it distracting.

This thread is from like 100 years ago… We’ve had the option to show all whitespace for a while now.
From the user file settings:

// Set to "none" to turn off drawing white space, "selection" to draw only the // white space within the selection, and "all" to draw all white space "draw_white_space": "selection",