kate show whitespace

[Tom Bell]

  On 8/18/2012 7:18 PM, Jason Paul Joines wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: kate show whitespace
> From: Perry<pwhite at bluewin.ch>
> To: Kubuntu user technical support<kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: 2012.08.18.Sat.3:32:23
>> Le vendredi, 17 août 2012 20.04:40 Jason Paul Joines a écrit :
>>>      I'm using Kubuntu 12.04.1.  Is it possible to configure Kate to show
>>> whitespace?  For example, if I need to be able to see that a tab is lead
>>> and trailed by spaces then I need to be able to see them both.  I know
>>> how to configure Kate to show tab marks and to show trailing spaces but
>>> not to show spaces that aren't trailing.
>> No idea, but a workaround
>> it's very easy to replace spaces by another unused character and revert after,
>> or just replacing spaces by spaces will temporary highlight all those
>> "changes".
>>
>>
>> Perry
>>
>
> I'm trying to help someone migrate from winblows to Kubuntu.  They are
> used to the features of the text editor Notepad++ which include showing
> symbols for whitespace and showing at the end of each line if the
> newline is CR or LF or CRLF.  I've found a few posts on the web that
> says Kate can do this but none that say how to and I haven't been able
> to figure it out.
>
>
> Jason
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Try -> Settings -> Configure Kate -> Editor
Component -> Appearance -> Highlight Trailing
Spaces

Tom

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