Revisions to Show whitespace characters in Visual Studio Code

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VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater

As mentioned by aloisdg below, editor.renderWhitespace is now an enum taking either none, boundary or all. To view all whitespaces:

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",

Before VS Code 1.6.0

Before 1.6.0, you had to set editor.renderWhitespace to true:

"editor.renderWhitespace": true

"editor.renderWhitespace": true

VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater

As mentioned by aloisdg below, editor.renderWhitespace is now an enum taking either none, boundary or all. To view all whitespaces:

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",

Before VS Code 1.6.0

Before 1.6.0, you had to set editor.renderWhitespace to true:

"editor.renderWhitespace": true

VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater

As mentioned by aloisdg below, editor.renderWhitespace is now an enum taking either none, boundary or all. To view all whitespaces:

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",

Before VS Code 1.6.0

Before 1.6.0, you had to set editor.renderWhitespace to true:

"editor.renderWhitespace": true

Removed edit update which simply added information from another pre-existing answer from several months ago. We don't just combine all the best parts of multiple answers into another accepted answer.

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edited Aug 31, 2020 at 16:50

Mark

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VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater

As mentioned by aloisdg below, editor.renderWhitespace is now an enum taking either none, boundary or all. To view all whitespaces:

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",

Before VS Code 1.6.0

Before 1.6.0, you had to set editor.renderWhitespace to true:

"editor.renderWhitespace": true

EDIT: As of VS Code v1.37 (July 2019), a selection option was added to the editor.renderWhitesapce setting and is now the default value. With this option set, whitespace characters will be rendered on highlighted text only.

VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater

As mentioned by aloisdg below, editor.renderWhitespace is now an enum taking either none, boundary or all. To view all whitespaces:

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",

Before VS Code 1.6.0

Before 1.6.0, you had to set editor.renderWhitespace to true:

"editor.renderWhitespace": true

EDIT: As of VS Code v1.37 (July 2019), a selection option was added to the editor.renderWhitesapce setting and is now the default value. With this option set, whitespace characters will be rendered on highlighted text only.

VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater

As mentioned by aloisdg below, editor.renderWhitespace is now an enum taking either none, boundary or all. To view all whitespaces:

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",

Before VS Code 1.6.0

Before 1.6.0, you had to set editor.renderWhitespace to true:

"editor.renderWhitespace": true

added latest option `selection` with source for completeness due to the high visibility of this answer

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edit approved Aug 30, 2020 at 18:37

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VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater

As mentioned by aloisdg below, editor.renderWhitespace is now an enum taking either none, boundary or all. To view all whitespaces:

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",

Before VS Code 1.6.0

Before 1.6.0, you had to set editor.renderWhitespace to true:

"editor.renderWhitespace": true

EDIT: As of VS Code v1.37 (July 2019), a selection option was added to the editor.renderWhitesapce setting and is now the default value. With this option set, whitespace characters will be rendered on highlighted text only.

VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater

As mentioned by aloisdg below, editor.renderWhitespace is now an enum taking either none, boundary or all. To view all whitespaces:

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",

Before VS Code 1.6.0

Before 1.6.0, you had to set editor.renderWhitespace to true:

"editor.renderWhitespace": true

VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater

As mentioned by aloisdg below, editor.renderWhitespace is now an enum taking either none, boundary or all. To view all whitespaces:

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",

Before VS Code 1.6.0

Before 1.6.0, you had to set editor.renderWhitespace to true:

"editor.renderWhitespace": true

EDIT: As of VS Code v1.37 (July 2019), a selection option was added to the editor.renderWhitesapce setting and is now the default value. With this option set, whitespace characters will be rendered on highlighted text only.