showWhitespaceChar parameter

Use the showWhitespaceChar parameter to set or query the display of the whitespace characters.

Availability

query command
set command
current parameter
default parameter
install parameter

Scope

showWhitespaceChar is scoped to the current view.
current.showWhitespaceChar is scoped to the current view.
default.showWhitespaceChar is globally scoped.
install.showWhitespaceChar is globally scoped.

Syntax

query showWhitespaceChar
set showWhitespaceChar [ default | on | off ]
query current.showWhitespaceChar
query default.showWhitespaceChar
set default.showWhitespaceChar [ install | on | off ]
query install.showWhitespaceChar 

Parameters

default If you specify the default parameter for the set showWhitespaceChar command, the current view will use the value of default.showWhitespaceChar to determine whether to display whitespace characters.
on If you specify the on parameter for the set showWhitespaceChar command, whitespace characters will be displayed in the current view; If you specify the on parameter for the set default.showWhitespaceChar command, whitespace characters will be displayed in all the views that have showWhitespaceChar set to default.
off If you specify the off parameter for the set showWhitespaceChar command, whitespace characters will not be displayed in the current view.  If you specify the off parameter for the set default.showWhitespaceChar command, whitespace characters will not display in all the views that have showWhitespaceChar set to default.
install If you specify the install parameter for the set default.showWhitespaceChar command, all of the views that have showWhitespaceChar set to default will use the value of install.showWhitespaceChar to determine whether to display whitespace characters.

Description

If you do not specify any of the parameters for the set showWhitespaceChar command, default is assumed.  If you do not specify any of the parameters for the set default.showWhitespaceChar command, install is assumed.

The query current.showWhitespaceChar command returns on if whitespace characters are displayed in the current view or off if whitespace are not displayed.

Examples

query showWhitespaceChar
set showWhitespaceChar off
query current.showWhitespaceChar
query default.showWhitespaceChar
set default.showWhitespaceChar off
query install.showWhitespaceChar 

Related reference
query command
set command
current parameter
default parameter
install parameter
whitespaceCharMapping parameter