Eclipse: I turned on hidden characters now I can't turn off

Question

Somehow I\'ve turned on hidden characters in Eclipse. It\'s not the \"whitespace\" characters in the general editor preferences. When turned on, it adds another layer of hid

Answer 1

It is actually in two places...

Sandkastenliga points out the obvious one, but you can also show white space with a shortcut key combination. The key combination is separate from the text editor preferences and will superimpose additional characters when active (it uses \r and \n for carriage return an line feed respectively instead of the symbols used by the text editor preference.)

Go to preferences > general > keys and look for the binding for the 'Show Whitespace' command.

I have the text editor preference turned on, so I removed the binding for this command altogether (it was set to Ctrl+. in my profile) to prevent accidental activation as it doesn't affect the other preference.