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Bug 207509

Summary:	Want to see white spaces only, not carriage returns
Product:	editor	Reporter:	Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan>
Component:	Painting & Printing	Assignee:	Miloslav Metelka <mmetelka>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	PLAN
Priority:	P3
Version:	7.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description Geertjan Wielenga 2012-01-19 11:27:14 UTC

It's great to see non-printable characters but it would be better if, like in IntelliJ IDEA, we could only see the white spaces, and not the carriage returns. Maybe a more finegrained piece of functionality, where the user can select exactly which non-printable characters they want to see.

Comment 1 Eduardo.m Costa 2012-01-19 13:05:52 UTC

IMHO, it should be an extra section in Editor Preferences, maybe below "When Saving Files". I'm thinking multiple checkboxes, selecting what kind of "non-whitespace" I want to see then "View > Show non-Printable" is selected: Whitespace, Tabs, CR, CRLF*, others.

* When dealing with teams composed by a mix of Linux/Windows users, it's important to know if they created the file with CR or CRLF. In VIM, I can see a "^M".

Comment 2 Martin Balin 2016-07-07 07:26:48 UTC

This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue.

Thanks for your cooperation,
NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss