Vscode: Feature request: Show hidden characters like: space, tab, end of line, carriage return

[citygabor]

• VSCode Version:1.8
• OS Version: Windows 10, Linux, Mac

Steps to Reproduce:

Hello VSCode Team,

Please create a new feature in view optin to show hidden characters like: space, tab, end of line(LF), carriage return (CR).
This basic option is available in Atom and Notepad++ which makes a script editor powerful.

Right now this option is not available in vscode 1.8.

Thanks,
Regards,
Gabor

[alexdima]

@citygabor

You can use editor.renderWhitespace: "all" to get spaces and tabs rendered and you can see the line ending of the file in the bottom right corner (LF or CRLF)

[citygabor]

@alexandrudima,

Finally I also found View -> Ctrl+Shift+i does the same which is Toggle Render Whitespace.
Please provide the information how to make different tab or dots. I can see only dots even I press tab.
I attached the screen which should be look like arrow for tab and dot for space.

Platform: Windows 10
Version: 1.8, 1.9
Thanks,
regards,
Gabor

[alexdima]

@citygabor Please ask such questions on stack overflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vscode

[masaeedu]

@alexandrudima I still want to see end-of-line characters in-file, because I can have files with literal strings that have carriage returns and linefeeds everywhere else. Is it possible to turn this on?