Re: Show/hide whitespace characters (a.k.a. "invisibles") in Xcode editor?
Re: Show/hide whitespace characters (a.k.a. "invisibles") in Xcode editor?
- Subject: Re: Show/hide whitespace characters (a.k.a. "invisibles") in Xcode editor?
- From: "Mattias Arrelid" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:43:53 +0100
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 16:41, j o a r <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Nov 3, 2008, at 1:30 AM, Mattias Arrelid wrote:
>
>> Ouch, right you are! Don't know how I could have missed that feature.
>> But seriously... is full stop character really the best indicator of a
>> space? Any clue on why the interpunct [1] character is not used
>> instead?
>
>
> That sounds like a feature request?
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/>
>
> I don't know the answer, but I would guess that a highly visible character
> was chosen, since this is typically a debugging aid, and not something that
> you use all the time.
You're probably right, but the interpunct is still a highly visible
character and more importantly, it cannot be mixed with a full stop
character - when "Show Spaces" is active, you really cannot tell
actual dots in the code from spaces. And... as Wikipedia [1] claims,
most editors represent a space with this glyph (if told to "Show
Spaces").
The result of this command combined with the new dot syntax introduced
in Objective-C 2.0 makes the choice of glyph even worse than before :)
I've reported this a bug, see rdar://problem/6348777
Regards
Mattias
[1] From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct:
"In computers, the middle dot is usually used to indicate white space
in various software applications such as word processing, graphic
design, web layout, desktop publishing, or software development
programs. It allows the user to see where white space is located in
the document, and what sizes of white space are used, since normally
white space is invisible so tabs, spaces, non-breaking spaces, and
such are indistinguishable from one another."
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