Does the "editorWhitespace.foreground" workbench.colorCustomizations setting in VSCode actually work?

Question

I'm using version 1.13 of VSCode on the Mac. I'd like to override the theme colour for whitespace. Following the docs:

editorWhitespace.foreground: Color of whitespace characters in the editor.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/master/docs/getstarted/theme-color-reference.md

I have put this in the settings:

  "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
    "editorWhitespace.foreground": "#333",
    "editorIndentGuide.background": "#333"
  }

The "editorIndentGuide.background" has an effect, but "editorWhitespace.foreground" doesn't. Am I doing something wrong?

UPDATE: To clarify, when the whitespace is visible the spaces are indicated with white dots. I'm expecting to be able to change the colour of the dots to, say, #333 with the "editorWhitespace.foreground" setting.

Answer 1

Yes, it does for me on Windows 10. I assume you have "Toggle Render Whitespace" under View menu on? What color is your editor background, perhaps it is too close to #333 to appear obvious.

Answer 2

I had an issue with this when specifically using the Default High Contrast theme. This has been fixed with the August 2017 release.