Why are (-) marks showing up in my editor in Visual Studio?

Question

I was writing some code and I don't know what I did, but my code started looking like this. I'm using boot camp on a mac and I tried to type the { like you do on a mac, and I think I hit a hot key.

The - marks are kinda greenish and ignored by the compiler.

if (someThing == 10)
{
----(if someOtherThing != 20)
----{

--------DoSomething();

----}
}

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 24 '14 at 17:35

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You have turned on "Show Whitespace" - MSDN

The keyboard shortcut you accidentally hit to to enable it is CTRL + R, CTRL + W.

answered Nov 24 '14 at 17:35

bpruitt-goddard

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Thanks, CTRL + W did the job – user3527883 Nov 24 '14 at 18:03

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 24 '14 at 17:33

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You've turned on "Show Whitespace" - you can toggle this in the menus, under: Edit > Advanced > Show Whitespce

answered Nov 24 '14 at 17:33

Rowland Shaw

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Why are (-) marks showing up in my editor in Visual Studio?

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