There is a gedit plugin that does this; might be worth a look.
On 5/10/07, Fredrik Corneliusson <fredrik corneliusson gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there an easy way to make white space characters (tab, non breaking
> space, newline etc.) be shown with visible glyphs as you can with
> Scintilla?
>
> Thanks for all your hard work!
>
> Regards,
> Fredrik
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