How do I turn off Tab and New Line markers in Eclipse?

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I am using Adobe's ColdFusion Builder, an Eclipse-based IDE built on top of Aptana.

All of a sudden, I am getting a type of whitespace marker showing in my Eclipse Editor. I must have accidentally hit a key combination.

Here is a screen dump.

screen dump of markers I am seeing

I have already tried "General > Editors > Text Editors > Show whitespace characters" and it is not this. I already have show whitespace characters turned off. If I turn it on, then the Whitespace Characters display over the top of what I am already seeing.

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Can anyone tell me how this can be turned off? Most annoying.

Many Thanks

Karate answered 21/10, 2012 at 22:50 Comment(1)

I added a starting sentence to clarify this isn't just a base Eclipse. (CFB being Aptana-based may have relevance to where settings are stored - in that there might be another CFB-specific set of these settings elsewhere in Preferences.) – Noletta 22/10, 2012 at 12:15

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I have done this several times by accidentally hitting some keystrokes.

If you go to Windows/Preferences/General/Keys you will see all the keyboard shortcuts you have.

Mine is set to Control + . (that's a period by the way) I had to place my cursor inside the document and do it a couple of times to make it work because there is also a keyboard shortcut for Control +

On a Mac it is Cmd +.

Hope that helps.

Teletypewriter answered 23/10, 2015 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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It's under Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors

Just uncheck 'Show Whitespace Characters':

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Schema answered 21/10, 2012 at 22:56 Comment(1)

Hi Yalestar, thanks for your reply. As per my post, I already have "show Whitespace Characters" turned off. If I turn it on it shows another marker set over the top of this one. I have pasted a screen dump of my current settings. Any other suggestions? I have tried everything but without luck. Thanks again. – Karate 21/10, 2012 at 23:7

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Did you try Restarting Eclipse? If that didn't work, you might try this http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka11640.html which explains which file to delete to force eclipse to revert to use default settings.

Donee answered 21/10, 2012 at 23:49 Comment(3)

Reset a customized perspective After you have modified a perspective, you can restore it to its original layout. In ColdFusion Builder, select Window > Preferences. In the Preferences dialog box, you see a tree-view structure on the left side. In the tree-view structure, select General > Perspectives. Under Available Perspectives, select the modified perspective that you want to reset. Click Reset, and then click OK. You can also use this to add a new perspective which may get rid of the white space markers. – Donee 23/10, 2012 at 9:14

Thanks Craig.. this seems to be the only option, but worked! Thanks! – Karate 25/10, 2012 at 9:20

An update on this one.. I found that Cmd+. (command + period) removes the formatting. – Karate 6/11, 2014 at 23:47

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