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[Feature] Display invisible characters #5288

Open ErrorSource opened 2 years ago

ErrorSource commented 2 years ago

Would it be possible to show invisible characters like tabstops, whitespaces and new lines (especially on active line and in code-blocks)?

Like:

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CharlesButcher commented 1 year ago

This would be really useful, as would a feature to clean up multiple spaces and blank lines, which I've seen somewhere (Scrivener?). I know those shouldn't matter much in Markdown, but sometimes we need to copy plain text…