Vscode: Render white spaces: provide option to show white space between words

[bpasero]

I have a use case to render whitespace but we seem to not render whitespace between words in a line:

Here I cannot figure out how the help text is formatted unless I use the keyboard.

[bpasero]

Not sure if this is actually something we should by default, hence setting bug label.

[jrieken]

not implemented as such but fair request

[jrieken]

@alexandrudima fyi

[stkb]

I love vscode's current whitespace rendering precisely because it doesn't mark all the whitespace between words -- which I find way too noisy visually -- just at the start and end of the line where it's really needed. So I hope this would remain an option.

[jrieken]

So I hope this would remain an option.

for sure

[davkean]

I thought this was a bug in that it was only showing me whitespace in certain cases, but realize this is the expected behavior. Undecided about the behavior as I've not yet used it, but might I suggest a better name to indicate what it really does?

[litera]

So to somewhat recap current state of possible renderWhitespace options which should be:

• false/"none" : no whitespaces should be displayed whatsoever
• "selection": display whitespaces (all of them) when user selects a portion of text
• "boundary": display all whitespace except inline single spaces (double spaces should be shown); this is per @stkb comment
• true/"all": display all whitespaces all the time

[zhoudotnet]

Hi Alexandrudima,
When this function can be implemented?

[jrieken]

this actually happened by a PR in september

[alexdima]

Yes, many thanks to @marktrz who implemented this in PR #11122

[alexdima]

To whomever verifies this: Please verify, this feature request slipped our queries and didn't get a test plan item.

[bpasero]

Cool 👍

[ghost]

Cool 👍