Do you know how many whitespace characters are hiding in your file? 🕵️♀️
Let’s find out!
Go to View -> Appearance and check Render Whitespace.
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To have more control over the display of the whitespace characters, press CTRL + SHIFT + P and open the current profile settings JSON file.
editor.renderWhitespace setting can hold 4 different values:
- all – displays all the whitespace characters
- none – don’t show them
- boundary – displays whitespace characters except for single spaces between words
- selection – displays whitespace characters only on selected text
- trailing – displays only trailing whitespace characters (at the end of the line)
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