Obsidian: Show Whitespace

This is a simple plugin to enable CodeMirror 6 extensions to highlight whitespace in both Source and Live Preview modes.

Features

• Whitespace Visualization: Displays leading and trailing whitespace in your notes.
• Blockquote Identification: Highlights the leading caret for blockquotes, making them easily distinguishable.
• List marker whitespace: Slight background applied to whitespace assigned to list markers (bullets or numbers)

Basic CSS styling provided by the plugin renders characters for whitespace at the beginning and ending of lines (not in the middle) for readability.

Look / Feel options

The plugin provides a few options to customize the look and feel of whitespace characters.

You can also completely disable the plugin's CSS and use your own.

1. Use the plugin setting to disable registration of style.css (this functions as a style settings plugin would)
2. Copy the plugin style.css into your own CSS snippet
3. Update styles as desired.

Examples

Once enabled, the plugin always shows leading space (as that is the hardest to see). Display of inner/trailing spaces depends on configuration.

• Plugin disabled:
  

• Show all whitespace (preempts other settings), outline list markers:
  

• Show consecutive whitespace, outline list markers:
  

• Outline list markers:
  

Line endings

Redefine --line-end or --line-break to change how those characters appear in a snippet.

body {
  --line-end: '¬';
  --line-break: '↲';
}

Installation

To install:

1. Open Settings -> Community Plugins
2. Disable safe mode
3. Browse and search for "Show Whitespace"
4. Click install
5. Use the toggle on the community plugins tab to enable the plugin.

Preview with Beta Reviewers Auto-update Tester (BRAT)

1. Install BRAT:
   • Open Settings -> Community Plugins.
   • Disable safe mode.
   • Browse, and search for "BRAT."
   • Install the latest version of Obsidian 42 - BRAT.
2. Configure BRAT:
   • Open BRAT settings (Settings -> Obsidian 42 - BRAT).
   • In the Beta Plugin List section, click Add Beta Plugin.
   • Specify this repository: ebullient/obsidian-show-whitespace-cm6.
3. Enable the Plugin:
   • Navigate to Settings -> Community Plugins.
   • Enable the plugin.

For developers

Pull requests are both welcome and appreciated. 😀

Support

Interested in supporting further development? Consider buying me a coffee!

Attribution

While this is a new implementation for CM6, styles and characters are inspired by behavior in VSCode and the original Show Whitespace plugin by death_au.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.