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Bug 510822 - GtKTextView should make it possibe to display control characters.
GtKTextView should make it possibe to display control characters.
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkTextView
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks: Arabic
 
 
Reported: 2008-01-20 15:50 UTC by Djihed Afifi
Modified: 2018-04-15 00:32 UTC
See Also:
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Description Djihed Afifi 2008-01-20 15:50:25 UTC 
Currently, editing text with control characters in a GtkTextView is like shooting in the dark. You don't see LRM, RLM, etc characters. Which makes it very difficult and pretty much guesswork to try and edit text with lots of these characters.

It would be nice to have a right click check box to enable viewing these characters for easier editing. This would display something like:
-> for LRM, <- for RLM, etc. This also may needs support by a *_set_controls_visible function and probably pango.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2018-02-10 05:24:21 UTC 
We're moving to gitlab! As part of this move, we are moving bugs to NEEDINFO if they haven't seen activity in more than a year. If this issue is still important to you and still relevant with GTK+ 3.22 or master, please reopen it and we will migrate it to gitlab.
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2018-04-15 00:32:17 UTC 
As announced a while ago, we are migrating to gitlab, and bugs that haven't seen activity in the last year or so will be not be migrated, but closed out in bugzilla.

If this bug is still relevant to you, you can open a new issue describing the symptoms and how to reproduce it with gtk 3.22.x or master in gitlab:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/new