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In Visual Studio for Windows, to display whitespace characters (tabs, spaces, etc) you simply press Ctrl + R, Ctrl + W.
5-In your Eclipse IDE, Go to: Window → Preferences → General → Editors → Text Editors → Indent Guide 6-Then enable indent guide checkbox. 7-Enjoy !
Check the option " General > Editors > Text Editors > Insert spaces for tabs ": if unchecked, it will display tabs, not space.
Unfortunately, you can only turn on all invisible (whitespace) characters at the same time. I suggest you file an enhancement request but I doubt they will pick it up.
The text component in Eclipse is very complicated as it is and they are not keen on making them even worse.
[UPDATE] This has been fixed in Eclipse 3.7: Go to Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors
Click on the link "whitespace characters" to fine tune what should be shown.
Kudos go to John Isaacks
Navigate to Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors
Click on the CheckBox "Show whitespace characters".
Thats all.!!!
I would prefer to keep the "Show Whitespace" button on the toolbar, so that in one click you can toggle it.
Go to Window -> Perspective -> Customize Perspective and enable to show the button on toolbar.
I use Checkstlye plugin for such a purpose. In Checkstyle configuration, I add special regexp rules to detect lines with TABs and then mark such lines as checkstyle ERROR, which is clearly visible in Eclipse editor. Works fine.
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