visual-studio-codewhitespace

Show whitespace characters in Visual Studio Code

Is it possible to show whitespace characters, like the space character, in Visual Studio Code?

There doesn't appear to be a setting for it (though it is one in several other code editors like Atom or Notepad++).

Solution

  • 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