Eclipse color setting for whitespace characters

Question

What color setting does Eclipse use for whitespace characters? Examples in the screenshot below are the little » glyphs representing tabs, and the pilcrow ¶ for paragraphs.

Answer 1

Basically, it is Foreground color + Transparency, there are no specific settings for whitespace characters.

• Transparency is configurable in

  Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors: click 'configure visibility' link > Transparency level

• Foreground color is configurable in

  • For Text Editor:

    Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors: Appearance color options

  • For Java Editor:

    Preferences > Java > Editor > Syntax Coloring: Element > Java > Others

Other editors may have their own settings.