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Created attachment 155648 [details] Visual Studio 2008 screenshot of tabs and spaces shown in faded colours Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 has the option to Edit → Advanced → View White Space. NetBeans seems to only be able to show whitespace via View → Show Non-printable Characters, but the other non-printable characters (such as newline) are ugly. I would like to be able to view only whitespace (tabs and spaces) as separate viewable characters and also have the option to colour them to a soft colour, like the attached picture (a screenshot from Visual Studio 2008). The ability to colour each non-printable character differently may be sufficient (so the newlines can be faded out completely in the settings), so these may also be related: - Bug 207793 - Ability to individually set color/highlight options for different kinds of whitespace (although the "different kinds" in this bug are context-sensitive kinds, rather than different characters like tab vs space) - Bug 198016 - Tabs should not be displayed as whitespace (although I do want to display tabs)