GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 117144
Ability to show/hide whitespace characters
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Many editors allow you to toggle showing whitespace characters (eg, space, tab, newline, carriage return, etc). This simple feature is very useful when you're cleaning up documents with bad tabbing, or doing a quick check on a document for stray whitespace. I would very much like to see this feature added to gedit in the future. If anyone is curious to see how it is done 'properly', check UltraEdit for Win32.
AFAIK this (if possible) belongs in gtksourceview. As a matter of fact bug 132826 requests the same feature. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132826 ***