[epp-dev] Whitespaces on by default

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'd like to share with you that proposal: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=497831

IMO, it would be a good candidate for the Neon.1 release.
FYI, that is an idea brought after some discussion on stack overflow with Eclipse users pretty unhappy of the formatting (tabs vs spaces) and who notice it pretty late, basically when someone else with other space settings open there code.
It generally doesn't cost anything, the light grey can easily be ignored, but it allows to spot indentation inconsistencies immediately as you type, which leads to better readability of the code produced with Eclipse.
It's also kind of a must-have for Python development. PyDev has a specific editors that adds some lines to show identation. Just showing those whitespaces could be enough,

Let's debate on the bug!

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