Bug 578783

Summary: Tab Whitespace Glyph as a Bar
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Starts Mercury <startsmercury>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: startsmercury
Version: 4.24   
Target Milestone: ---   
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Description Starts Mercury CLA 2022-02-16 07:40:34 EST
Instead of the tab whitespace being rendered as a (>>), make it render as a bar that can adjust to different sizes (2, 4, etc.)

// Imagine the dashes as connected
// it represents the enhanced tab
// whitespace glyph.
public class A {
----int i;

----public A() {
--------i = 69;
----}
}
Comment 1 Starts Mercury CLA 2022-02-16 07:42:25 EST
corrections to example comment

// Imagine the dashes as connected every n times
// it represents the enhanced tab whitespace glyph.
Comment 2 Starts Mercury CLA 2022-02-16 07:54:50 EST
Created attachment 288060 [details]
illustration
Comment 3 Starts Mercury CLA 2022-02-16 07:55:50 EST
the illustration was made in gimp, connecting the space glyph