The Invisible Characters feature allows you to draw invisible characters, such as special characters for formatting, in a document with alternative symbols so that you can find where they are.
You can switch the visibility of invisible characters in the current document by performing one of the following:
The change here doesn’t override the CotEditor’s default setting.
You can change the default setting of the invisible visibility in the Window settings by selecting the “Invisible character” checkbox in the “Show” section.
You can set whether to print invisible characters on print in the print dialog.
In the Window settings, you can set which types of invisible characters are shown when the invisible character display is available. The types correspond to the following characters:
| Label | Sym. | Characters (code point) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Line ending | ↩ |
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The control characters indicating a line break. The CRLF type line ending (combination of U+000D and U+000A) is also drawn as a single character. |
| Tab | → |
|
A kind of whitespace character with a flexible width sending the next character to a certain position. In coding, it is often used for indentation. |
| Space | · |
|
The standard space character. |
| Other whitespaces |
·̂ |
|
The space characters avoiding breaking the line before/after it. |
| □ |
|
A kind of space characters commonly used in Japanese writing. As known as full-width space. | |
| ⹀ |
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Whitespace characters in various widths and uses. They correspond to all of the remaining whitespace characters in Unicode category Zs (space separator). | |
| Other control characters |
� |
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Special characters that are not printed as a graphic character but used for controlling or formatting documents. They correspond to all of Unicode category Cc (control) and some of Cf (format). |