{"id":75,"date":"2009-12-18T13:03:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guganeshan.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-12-18T13:27:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:57:41","slug":"strange-characters-in-visual-studio-code-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guganeshan.com\/blog\/strange-characters-in-visual-studio-code-editor.html","title":{"rendered":"Strange characters in Visual Studio code editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you see any strange <strong>dots and\/or arrows<\/strong> in the Visual Studio code editor and have no idea how you turned them on? (check the screen-shot)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/guganeshan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/whitespace-characters-in-visual-studio-code-editor.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"whitespace characters in visual studio code editor\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These represent the &#8220;<strong>white space<\/strong>&#8221; characters such as the space, tab, carriage return etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to turn it on or off:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You can press the key combination <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">CTRL+E, S<\/span><\/strong> (can be different if you have modified). OR<\/li>\n<li>Select: <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Edit \u00bb Advanced \u00bb View White Space<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually a helpful feature to examine a code file to see what the white space consists of (tabs or spaces). But it can be annoying to keep the feature always turned on.<\/p>\n<p>It has happened at least 5 or more times for me and I always forget what I did the last time to turn it off <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.i1.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/i\/mesg\/emoticons7\/1.gif\" alt=\"Happy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I decided to post about it so that someone (including me!) can find this and remember what to do to turn it off (or on).<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you see any strange dots and\/or arrows in the Visual Studio code editor and have no idea how you turned them on? 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