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Bug 207510

Summary: Color of non-printable characters should be configurable or semitransparent
Product: editor Reporter: Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan>
Component: Painting & PrintingAssignee: Miloslav Metelka <mmetelka>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: digihero, dstrupl, johnjackson, kAlvaro, _m4c0_
Priority: P3 Keywords: PLAN
Version: 7.3   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description Geertjan Wielenga 2012-01-19 11:29:06 UTC
The non-printable characters should be shown by default in a very light shade of grey so I can leave the feature turned on all the time and barely notice it unless I specifically want to look at it.  

I shouldn't need to configure that, that should be the default color for non-printable characters.
Comment 1 Leksat 2012-05-05 05:10:22 UTC
Also, non-pribtable characters do not use defined color inside strings, comments, etc.
I suggest to make them half-transparent (without color settings).
This would be grait! Right now my eyes are tired much of them.
Comment 2 upsfeup 2012-08-17 18:46:07 UTC
Also, carrier return character (that is also an whitespace character) is not using the whitespace color definition
Comment 3 mattsoftware 2012-11-22 00:14:03 UTC
+1 for this to be fixed. All non-visible characters should be able to be styled together. Regardless of if it is in whitespace, within a comment, if its a space/tab/paragraph etc.

I would suggest the half-transparent suggestion would be great as default, but as long as all the non-visible characters are able to be styled together that would be my wish.

Thank you.
Comment 4 efsv 2013-03-13 10:27:42 UTC
+1 for this to be fixed. It would be nice to make the carriage return symbol's color configurable as well as for others whitespaces.
Comment 5 digihero 2013-04-15 15:28:45 UTC
The default color of non-printing characters should be light gray
But now it is with the body of a color.
Non-printing characters should be able to at least set the color alone.
Multiple TAB indented to show only one non-printing characters, I am not accustomed to.
Comment 6 julienhuang 2014-05-28 09:52:28 UTC
+1 for this too.

We can change the color of whitespace characters (space & TAB) to gray in the syntax highlighting settings, but not the end of line character "\n" or "\r\n".
Comment 7 BlameFate 2016-04-28 10:06:17 UTC
Related to:
https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215172
Comment 8 Settler 2018-12-05 03:13:05 UTC
+1
please fix this