View White Space

Link. October 29, 2007. Comments [2]. Posted in: Tools

Quick question: How many of you use the 'View White Space' feature in Visual Studio?

In case you're not familiar with it, this feature makes the VS code/text editor display a small dot everywhere there's a space and a small square at the end of the file, thus making it easier to visualize white space. Here's how it usually looks:

Whitespace

The 'View White Space' feature can be activated through the Edit -> Advanced -> View White Space menu option, or using the Ctrl+R, Ctrl+W key combination (at least on my keyboard layout).

Personally, I only use this very rarely, though I admit it is occasionally useful, for example when working with positional flat files. I do wonder, is there any of you that uses it full time while coding?



Monday, October 29, 2007 4:25:07 AM (SA Pacific Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I use this full-time as I work on various projects and would forget to siwtch between tabs and whitespace if left off which would annoy the other devs no-end...

Would be great if that option was stored in the .proj file.

[)amien
Monday, October 29, 2007 8:21:19 AM (SA Pacific Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I never use this feature nor could I ever use it. When I am working with Fixed Witdth Files I've found this little program called FileViewer or something that would show everything I need.

Josh
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