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The main feature of WhiteSpace is to highlight whitespaces.
When highlighted,
Spaces are represented by a
Tabs are represented by a
Other whitespaces are represented by a
Except for the space, the horizontal tabulation and the line feed,
other whitespaces are defined by the
Character.isWhitespace java function, i.e.:
a Unicode space separator (category "Zs"), but not a no-break space (\u00a0 or \ufeff).
a Unicode line separator (category "Zl").
a Unicode paragraph separator (category "Zp").
\u000b, vertical tabulation.
\u000c, form feed.
\u000d, carriage return.
\u001c, file separator.
\u001d, group separator.
\u001e, record separator.
\u001f, unit separator.
When the option is checked, the characters in the range \u0000 through \u001f or in the range \u007f through \u009f are also highlighted.
WhiteSpace has also some other useful features:
Paragraph separators: a paragraph separator is displayed whenever two or more empty lines are encoutered.
Fold guides show the different levels of indentations of your code by displaying vertical grey (default) lines
Fold tooltips are displayed when the beginning of a block is not visible and your mouse cursor is near a fold guide.
On save actions:
Remove trailing whitespaces
Tabify/untabify leading whitespaces according to soft tabs settings
Tabify leading whitespaces
Untabify leading whitespaces
At last, some jEdit actions are related to spaces and tabs handling:
> >
> >
WhiteSpace default options are available under: > > > .
Show spaces by default
Space color
Show leading spaces by default
Show inner spaces by default
Show trailing spaces by default
Show tabs by default
Tab color
Show leading tabs by default
Show inner tabs by default
Show trailing tabs by default
Show other whitespaces by default
Display ISO control chars as whitespaces
Other whitespace color
Show paragraph separators by default
Paragraph separators respect indentation
Paragraph separator color
When chosen, these actions are performed when a buffer is saved:
- Remove trailing whitespaces
All trailing tabs and spaces are removed, except those preceded by one of the given escape characters. The default escape character is \ (backslash). E.g.
Some Text\
will be replaced by
Some Text\
- Tabify/untabify according to soft tabs setting
The soft tabs setting determines whether leading whitespaces should be converted to tabs or spaces.
- Tabify leading whitespaces
Leading whitespaces are replaced by a sequence of tabs possibly followed by at most tabSize - 1 spaces. The expanded length of leading whitespaces remains the same.
- Untabify leading whitespaces
All tabs are removed from the leading whitespaces and replaced by an equivalent number of spaces. The expanded length of leading whitespaces remains the same.
The Buffer options are available from the > menu.
The following Buffer options enable you to control the highlighting of spaces, tabs and other whitespaces for a given jEdit buffer. It's also possible to highlight spaces and tabs depending on their position (leading/inner/trailing) in the text.
The following Buffer options control the actions to be taken when a buffer is saved. Note that the last three actions are mutually exclusive.
The source code is distributed under the GPL. Please see http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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