Kate version 16.12 kate does not seem to have the ability to display control characters i.e. \n. This makes an otherwise great application useless for example inspecting or troubleshooting and input file during coding e.g. json. Could we have display option display of control characters?
\n is the newline character, which you can 'see' because the line breaks. Are you talking about a missing trailing newline at the end of the file? There is an option forcing it on save.
On Friday, 30 December 2016 16:54:34 CET you wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374120 > > --- Comment #1 from Christoph Feck <cfeck@kde.org> --- > \n is the newline character, which you can 'see' because the line breaks. > Are you talking about a missing trailing newline at the end of the file? > There is an option forcing it on save. its not that clear, for example journalctl spits out single json records split on new lines. Since the id numbers are enourmous + other codes, combined with word wrapping it is very difficult to see any new lines (jagged mess). depending on the width of the kate window it can be impossible to see. atom has the 'show invisibles' and sublime has equivlent. i have just looked in atom and found they used the ¬ symbol, upon review i think this would be much better.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 342811 ***