How to display Only spaces (...) without the ¶ in Netbeans "Show Non-printable Characters" mode?

Question

Is there any way how to hide the annoying ¶ character without hiding white-spaces?

To be specific, I want this:

....public static void main(String[] agrs){
........Map<Integer, List<Integer>> tableMap = new HashMap<>();

I don't want this:

¶
....public static void main(String[] agrs){¶
........Map<Integer, List<Integer>> tableMap = new HashMap<>();¶

the "show Non-printable characters" option displays both the dots for white spaces and the ¶ character at the end of line.. I just want the dots.

Answer 1

I am using Netbeans 8.0.2, there is a plugin ("Editor Whitespace") developed by "Tunnel Vision Labs" available to do somewhat like that.

Here is the plugin description:

This module provides a generic whitespace highlighter for consistent display when using the "Show Non-printable Characters" option in the IDE. All tab and space characters are shown according to the "Whitespace" color option, and newline characters are made invisible.