Kate - show all whitespace

Question

I am using kubuntu and would like for kate to show me all whitespace.

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score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '15 at 17:07

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Click Settings > Configure Kate... to bring up the Configure dialog.
Click Editor Component > Appearance.
In the Whitespace Highlighting section, check Highlight tabulators and Highlight trailing spaces.
In the Advanced section, check Show indentation lines.
Click OK.

It seems one cannot highlight leading spaces.

answered Mar 26 '15 at 17:07

Geoffrey

Besides that also colors may need to be adjusted in: Configure Kate... > Editor Component > Fonts & Colors. At "Colors" tab in "Text Decoration" section. – Mikaelblomkvistsson Dec 23 '18 at 15:05
doesn't show newline characters though. – Abdull Jul 02 '25 at 23:46

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