See special characters in IDE

[trenatos]

I'd love to see a setting for seeing all special characters right in the IDE (Similar to what Notepad++ does)

Sometimes a NL or CR sneaks in and can be a bugger to find, being able to just see all special chars would solve that.

[richmond62]

One of the ways to get that comparatively easily is set your system font to one that has glyphs for all the special chars.

[richmond62]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_cont ... characters

It should be comparatively simple to run up a font using a font editor such as Font Forge
with visible symbols in these spaces.

[trenatos]

I know of ways *around* the problem, such as special fonts or copying into Notepad++, I'm just looking for a simple built-in solution you can toggle on/off to check for things.