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I am using Adobe's ColdFusion Builder, an Eclipse-based IDE built on top of Aptana.

All of a sudden, I am getting a type of whitespace marker showing in my Eclipse Editor. I must have accidentally hit a key combination.

Here is a screen dump.

screen dump of markers I am seeing

I have already tried "General > Editors > Text Editors > Show whitespace characters" and it is not this. I already have show whitespace characters turned off. If I turn it on, then the Whitespace Characters display over the top of what I am already seeing.

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Can anyone tell me how this can be turned off? Most annoying.

Many Thanks

Peter Boughton
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Jason
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  • I added a starting sentence to clarify this isn't just a base Eclipse. (CFB being Aptana-based may have relevance to where settings are stored - in that there _might_ be another CFB-specific set of these settings elsewhere in Preferences.) – Peter Boughton Oct 22 '12 at 12:15

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It's under Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors

Just uncheck 'Show Whitespace Characters':

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yalestar
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    Hi Yalestar, thanks for your reply. As per my post, I already have "show Whitespace Characters" turned off. If I turn it on it shows another marker set over the top of this one. I have pasted a screen dump of my current settings. Any other suggestions? I have tried everything but without luck. Thanks again. – Jason Oct 21 '12 at 23:07
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Did you try Restarting Eclipse? If that didn't work, you might try this http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka11640.html which explains which file to delete to force eclipse to revert to use default settings.

Craig Smith
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  • Reset a customized perspective After you have modified a perspective, you can restore it to its original layout. In ColdFusion Builder, select Window > Preferences. In the Preferences dialog box, you see a tree-view structure on the left side. In the tree-view structure, select General > Perspectives. Under Available Perspectives, select the modified perspective that you want to reset. Click Reset, and then click OK. You can also use this to add a new perspective which may get rid of the white space markers. – Craig Smith Oct 23 '12 at 09:14
  • Thanks Craig.. this seems to be the only option, but worked! Thanks! – Jason Oct 25 '12 at 09:20
  • An update on this one.. I found that Cmd+. (command + period) removes the formatting. – Jason Nov 06 '14 at 23:47
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I have done this several times by accidentally hitting some keystrokes.

If you go to Windows/Preferences/General/Keys you will see all the keyboard shortcuts you have.

Mine is set to Control + . (that's a period by the way) I had to place my cursor inside the document and do it a couple of times to make it work because there is also a keyboard shortcut for Control +

On a Mac it is Cmd +.

Hope that helps.

Jason
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