kate show whitespace

[Jason Paul Joines]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: kate show whitespace
From: Tom Bell <cbell44 at cfl.rr.com>
To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: 2012.08.18.Sat.20:22:18
>  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
>


    As I mentioned in the original posts, I know how to show trailing
spaces, just not leading spaces, intermediate spaces, double spaces,
etc.  Any idea how to show all spaces?


Jason
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