Showing A Blank Space with a Dot

Acadia User · Post by **Acadia User** » Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:52 pm

Can anyone tell me how to show a blank space on a line with a dot?

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:30 pm

Do you mean View | Visible Spaces ?

Acadia User · Post by **Acadia User** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:26 pm

I already have that selected. What I want is to have a "." showing for each blank space on a line to better view where blank spaces exit.

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:10 pm

Is Configure | Preferences | View | Visible white space | Spaces selected?

Post by **MudGuard** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:16 pm

Which colors are defined?

Configure - Preferences - Document Classes - <your document class> - Colors - Visible Spaces

Acadia User · Post by **Acadia User** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:12 pm

The Document Class that I use is Text.

Colors for Visible spaces are Foreground: Red and background: White.

Post by **bbadmin** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:56 pm

Perhaps the characters you are trying to highlight are not actually spaces, but don't have a glyph defined for the chosen font. Try opening a binary view of the file to check their values. Space is hex 20 and tab is hex 09.

Acadia User · Post by **Acadia User** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:57 pm

Viewing a file in binary, I sse a whole bunch of 20's.

Any other thoughts?

Acadia User · Post by **Acadia User** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:01 pm

I can see the "." now for all blank spaces. The setting that I forgot to check was View --> Visible Spaces.

Thanks for all your help.

ak47wong · Post by **ak47wong** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:14 pm