Show Invisibles In Selection

[Oliver Taylor]

I've always loved how Pages shows invisible characters (like line-breaks) when 
you've selected them, like this:



And I've always wanted the same thing in BBEdit. I like to see them, but having 
them always on can be cluttering.

A bolt of inspiration hit my brain today and I figured out how to do it, just 
turn on "Show Invisible Characters" and set the "Spaces" color to the same as 
the background (in whatever theme you're using. This is what you get:




Not great for every circumstance, but I love this trick.

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Re: Show Invisibles In Selection

[G. T. Stresen-Reuter]

Brilliant, and great idea! Thanks for sharing!

Ted


Sent from iPhone. Please excuse my brevity and misspellings.


On May 21, 2013, at 11:53 PM, Oliver Taylor  wrote:

> I've always loved how Pages shows invisible characters (like line-breaks) 
> when you've selected them, like this:
> 
> 
> 
> And I've always wanted the same thing in BBEdit. I like to see them, but 
> having them always on can be cluttering.
> 
> A bolt of inspiration hit my brain today and I figured out how to do it, just 
> turn on "Show Invisible Characters" and set the "Spaces" color to the same as 
> the background (in whatever theme you're using. This is what you get:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Not great for every circumstance, but I love this trick.
> -- 
> This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a 
> feature request or would like to report a problem, please email
> "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group.
> Follow @bbedit on Twitter: 
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