#1308 scintilla: CR/LF/(etc) meta-characters do not follow whitepspace formatting rules

[Maury Markowitz]

I hope this is the right place to post this, I am basing this on another user's statement that this is the ultimate root cause.

I use NotePad++ which I understand is based on the Scintilla editor. One of its options is to turn on whitepsace characters (WS), which makes, for instance, a space appear as a small dot and a tab as an arrow. It also turns on characters for CR and LF and similar WS characters.

There is a setting to control the appearance of WS characters, which works for spaces and such. However, this is not applied to the characters like CR. These default to some other style which I cannot appear to adjust.

As a result I find it very difficult to read text files with this option turned on as they are very "strong". See the attached file for an example.

I would like to request that these WS characters also follow the WS-style.

[Zufu Liu]

This is a Notepad++ issue. SCI_SETVIEWWS turn on/off dot/arrow for space/tab, SCI_SETVIEWEOL turn on/off white-on-black CR/LF.

https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETVIEWWS
https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETVIEWEOL

[Zufu Liu]

It seems I misunderstand the issue, this is duplicate of [feature-requests:#1129].