Obsidian show trailing spaces in editor through custom CSS
After enabling “strict” newlines for markdown/hugo conformity I had to decide whether newline would be two trailing space or a single backspace (Line breaks in markdown)
Backspaces didn’t work out, so whitespaces it is - how to make them visible when editing?
Obsidian forum1 provided this wonderful snippet:
.cm-trailing-space-new-line, .cm-trailing-space-a, .cm-trailing-space-b, .cm-tab{
font-size: 0;
}
.cm-trailing-space-a::before, .cm-trailing-space-b::before, .cm-trailing-space-new-line::before, .cm-tab::before{
content:'·';
color:var(--text-faint);
font-size: initial;
}
.cm-trailing-space-new-line::before {
content:'↵';
}
.cm-tab::before {
content:'⟶'
}
Works!
(And shows tabs as bonus, perfect.)
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