Shift+Ctrl+8 toggles whitespace display (I'm using VS6). The reason nobody uses it is because it ends up like trying to read line noise:
LRESULT-+CALLBACK-+WndProc-+(HWND-+hwnd,-+UINT-+message,-+WPARAM-+wParam,-+LPARAM-+lParam)
{
-+-+-+-+HDC-+hdc;
-+-+-+-+PAINTSTRUCT-+ps;
-+-+-+-+switch-+(message)
-+-+-+-+{
-+-+-+-+case-+WM_CREATE:
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+return-+(0);
-+-+-+-+case-+WM_PAINT:
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+hdc-+=-+BeginPaint-+(hwnd,-+&ps);
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+TextOut-+(hdc,-+0,-+0,-+"A-+Window!",-+27);
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+EndPaint-+(hwnd,-+&ps);
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+return-+(0);
-+-+-+-+case-+WM_DESTROY:
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+PostQuitMessage-+(0);
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+return-+(0);
-+-+-+-+}
-+-+-+-+return-+DefWindowProc-+(hwnd,-+message,-+wParam,-+lParam);
}
Add in VAX and you also get the whitespace characters taking on the colours of the keywords around them:
Excuse my BGR subpixel Cleartyping
What I'd like is if VAX could instead format all these whitespace-representative characters a uniform grey (or other configurable colour). Having visible whitespace on is important if one hopes to maintain a constant formatting style.
(Also, the whitespacing used in Autotext is horrible, with mixes of tabs and spaces for indenting even within single lines.)
