Re: [gedit-list] visible tabs, spaces, newlines?

[John Pye <john pye student unsw edu au>]

Hi Paolo, Steve,

That worked a treat. Thanks very much.

I had a little go at adding a menu option for turning it on and off. I 
got a little way but didn't know what the right way to stored gedit 
preferences via python is?

Cheers
JP

Paolo Borelli wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Is there any way to make tabs, spaces, newlines, etc visible in gedit?
> >
> > In some other editors, you can switch on a view that gives you little 
> > dots for spaces, little arrows for tabs, and backwards arrows for 
> > newlines. This would be or great use when attempting to fixed up 
> > badly indented code, or when dealing with tables of tab delimited data.
> >
> > Perhaps there's a plugin for this?
> >   
> I have uploaded a half done plugin here 
> http://www.gnome.org/~pborelli/gedit-plugins/
> with the name 'drawspaces', I played with it some months ago and it's 
> not complete, but it works.
> Feel free to improve it :)
>
> ciao

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