In Sublime Text 2 How to view carriage return and line feed?

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In notepad++ there is a toolbar button to switch on/off display of EOL characters, i.e. carriage return and line feed.

Can Sublime Text 2 do the similar thing?

score 51 · Answer 1 · edited May 29 '21 at 00:11

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In case anyone is here years later, I found success with the sublime package RawLineEdit.

Install with Package Control
Enter Raw Line Edit: Toggle into the command palette (via Ctrl+Shift+P)

Further documentation of features can be found in the User Guide.
Note that this package is only supported in Sublime Text 3.

edited May 29 '21 at 00:11

Dexter

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answered Nov 22 '16 at 00:52

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Please delete this answer, it saves a lot of people wasting time to find out in the end it is only for Sublime 3. The question clearly says Sublime 2 – Hakaishin Apr 01 '19 at 21:31
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@Hakaishin It is true the question clearly says Sublime Text 2. However, I'd like to offer a few counterpoints. 1) At least 29 people have found this answer useful. 2) Most people googling for an answer to this question are in fact using Sublime Text 3 since ST2 has not been updated since 2013. 3) This answer explicitly states that this package is only supported in Sublime Text 3. No one who reads this answer should end up having wasted their time to find this out. – lanery Apr 04 '19 at 08:13
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FWIW - This is still relevant for Sublime Build 4121. _"1) At least_ ***43*** _people have found this answer useful. "_ – ryyker Nov 09 '21 at 15:18

Matt York · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-25T22:53:03.553

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Sublime Text does not currently support displaying EOL characters.

http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/104394-is-it-possible-to-show-all-characters-spaces-tabs-cr-lf-etc/

edited Aug 25 '12 at 22:53

answered Aug 25 '12 at 22:20

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There are however some packages that can be installed. https://github.com/SublimeText/LineEndings – Seanny123 Aug 30 '13 at 04:24
Thanks Seanny -- but that package is for ST3 only. – cweekly Apr 18 '14 at 19:06
@Seanny123 Also the package isn't terribly useful yet, doesn't actually display line endings. – leetNightshade Apr 23 '14 at 22:54

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 04 '20 at 08:53

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There is a quick workaround, in the search, enable the Regular expression and the search value use \n. You will see all the line feed is highlighted.

answered May 04 '20 at 08:53

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Dexter · Answer 4 · 2021-05-29T04:50:58.610

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This might not really helpful for OP question and also the question is 8yrs old and iam assuming he must have got a answer pretty early on.

This is anyone still looking for the answer to show the carriage return in Sublime text 3.

As on May 2021 the current version is 3.2.2

Detailed version of @Sam YC answer

Tested in Sublime text 3

Press Ctrl+ F (Windows)
Select the first box 'Regular Expression (Alt+R)'
Also select 'Highlight matches' (Last box with plain border)
Enter \n

You should see something like this. If you do not see anything, just toggle the 'Highlight matches'.

score -13 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 22 '15 at 05:40

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There is another way to achieve this.

Go to preference -> choose "settings-user"

In the file opened paste this command.

"ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true

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That just ensures there is a new line at the end of **file** on save. It will not **display** end of **line** characters. – Simon Lieschke Aug 06 '15 at 04:06
For what its worth this answer _can_ be deleted. But its your choice. – ryyker Nov 09 '21 at 15:30

In Sublime Text 2 How to view carriage return and line feed?

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05 2021

Tested in Sublime text 3

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