Represent white space characters with symbols.
#GtkSourceSpaceDrawer provides a way to visualize white spaces, by drawing symbols.
Call gtksource.view.View.getSpaceDrawer to get the gtksource.space_drawer.SpaceDrawer instance of a certain class@View.
By default, no white spaces are drawn because the property@SpaceDrawer:enable-matrix is false.
To draw white spaces, gtksource.space_drawer.SpaceDrawer.setTypesForLocations can be called to set the property@SpaceDrawer:matrix property (by default all space types are enabled at all locations). Then call gtksource.space_drawer.SpaceDrawer.setEnableMatrix.
For a finer-grained method, there is also the class@Tag's property@Tag:draw-spaces property.
To draw non-breaking spaces everywhere and draw all types of trailing spaces except newlines:
gtk_source_space_drawer_set_types_for_locations (space_drawer, GTK_SOURCE_SPACE_LOCATION_ALL, GTK_SOURCE_SPACE_TYPE_NBSP); gtk_source_space_drawer_set_types_for_locations (space_drawer, GTK_SOURCE_SPACE_LOCATION_TRAILING, GTK_SOURCE_SPACE_TYPE_ALL & ~GTK_SOURCE_SPACE_TYPE_NEWLINE); gtk_source_space_drawer_set_enable_matrix (space_drawer, TRUE);
A possible use-case is to draw only unwanted white spaces. Examples:
And non-breaking spaces can always be drawn, everywhere, to distinguish them from normal spaces.
Represent white space characters with symbols.
#GtkSourceSpaceDrawer provides a way to visualize white spaces, by drawing symbols.
Call gtksource.view.View.getSpaceDrawer to get the gtksource.space_drawer.SpaceDrawer instance of a certain class@View.
By default, no white spaces are drawn because the property@SpaceDrawer:enable-matrix is false.
To draw white spaces, gtksource.space_drawer.SpaceDrawer.setTypesForLocations can be called to set the property@SpaceDrawer:matrix property (by default all space types are enabled at all locations). Then call gtksource.space_drawer.SpaceDrawer.setEnableMatrix.
For a finer-grained method, there is also the class@Tag's property@Tag:draw-spaces property.
Example
To draw non-breaking spaces everywhere and draw all types of trailing spaces except newlines:
Use-case: draw unwanted white spaces
A possible use-case is to draw only unwanted white spaces. Examples:
And non-breaking spaces can always be drawn, everywhere, to distinguish them from normal spaces.