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In Visual Studio text editor when I enable white space character display, the displayed dots (representing the space character) are so little and dim that are barely visible. I have a hard time to figure out if there is pace or not.
My font setting is 11 Courier New on a mid size laptop screen with 1280x800 resolution. The 11 font size is ideal for me, only the white space dots symbols are so little. My editor's background is white and the dots are red.
Here is a screenshot
Spaces between #include and main function and inside main function.
Hard to see.
Is there a way to make more visible the little dots without to change the white text editor background?
Thanks!
Did you try to change the colour or to evaluate other fonts?
I tried multiple combinations, fonts with background colors, but nothing helped. The only way to make the dots easier to observe is to change the font size. With font size 14 the dots are bigger, but that font size is to big for me. In the example screenshots what I found on the internet, the dots are bold and big enough, like here for instance: https://weblogs.asp.net/jeffwids/how-to-show-white-space-in-visual-studio
P.S. Interesting that in text editor settings the Bold checkbox does not work for white spaces. Bold is not applied when I check the box. I'm using VS2015.
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Spaces and tabs are visible for me with 11pt Courier New.
Problem solved! As my previous screenshot shows the tabs are displayed as 'a' characters with accents. I concluded from here that I have some font problems (consider that in the past I deleted, installed, reinstalled some font files). So I decide to reinstall Windows. This solved my problem.
After reinstalling Windows:
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I am glad to hear that your issue is resolved. Thanks for your sharing!