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Bug 225747

Summary:	Allow more detailed control of whitespace and newline highlighting
Product:	editor	Reporter:	Miloslav Metelka <mmetelka>
Component:	Painting & Printing	Assignee:	Miloslav Metelka <mmetelka>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	esanabria, Winterwolf
Priority:	P2
Version:	7.3
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	TASK	Exception Reporter:

Description Miloslav Metelka 2013-02-05 13:33:38 UTC

There could be an extra Tab "Whitespace" in Tools->Options->Fonts&Colors with a listbox on the left with three items:

Indentation Whitespace
Trailing Whitespace
Newline

On the right there would be a checkbox whether particular highlight is applied or not and a highlight configuration like under "Syntax" tab.
 However I somewhat resist to put this under Syntax tab since it's not related to syntax of the language and it would not be turnable on/off. Highlighting tab does not offer font (or effects) change which could be beneficial here since it would be applied to the font of non-visible chars display.

Comment 1 Miloslav Metelka 2013-05-15 14:31:36 UTC

Current solution are items in Tools->Options->Fonts&Colors->Highlighting tab:

Indentation Whitespace
Trailing Whitespace

When assigning background colors to them the indentation/trailing whitespace will start to be shown.

http://hg.netbeans.org/jet-main/rev/4e035f03b6eb

Comment 2 Quality Engineering 2013-05-18 02:53:13 UTC

Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201305172300* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress)
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/4e035f03b6eb
User: Miloslav Metelka <mmetelka@netbeans.org>
Log: #225747 - Allow more detailed control of whitespace and newline highlighting.

Comment 3 Milutin Kristofic 2013-08-01 14:03:36 UTC

*** Bug 205854 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Milutin Kristofic 2013-08-01 14:03:57 UTC

*** Bug 205247 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***