[John Sawers]

This is a feature I have had in other text editors, and it would be very useful for all of the editors in MyEclipse. I just spent a few hours tracking down a bug in a CSS file that was due to some errant invisible ASCII characters hiding at the end of the line. If I could set a pref to display non-printable ASCII chars I would be very happy.

I searched the forums but found no reference to this topic, I hope this has not already been discussed.

[Riyad Kalla]

Actually no you are the first person to ever request this… are more people interested in this?

[kitm]

Absolutely. This type of thing may not happen very often, but when it does it’s a huge time-sink unless your tools have the ability to show you *everything* in a file (including EOL/EOF chars etc.) *and* are able to identify the actual character. Ie. I don’t want to just know that there *is* and invisible character in the file, I want to know *what* character it is – this can be critical in tracking down the source of the character.

[Riyad Kalla]

Hmm good points guys… I’ll file this.

[Paul Kaiser]

+1

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