Bug 578783 - Tab Whitespace Glyph as a Bar
Summary: Tab Whitespace Glyph as a Bar
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.24   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2022-02-16 07:40 EST by Starts Mercury CLA
Modified: 2022-02-16 07:55 EST (History)
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illustration (11.95 KB, image/png)
2022-02-16 07:54 EST, Starts Mercury CLA
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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