Show Whitespace

Make invisible characters visible in the clip editor.

Toggle the · button to reveal spaces (as dots), tabs (as arrows), and trailing whitespace (highlighted in red). Useful when working with config files, code, or any content where invisible characters matter.

How to use it

  1. Look for the · (dot) button in the text transform toolbar below the editor.
  2. Click it to toggle whitespace visibility on or off.
  3. Button lit = whitespace visible. Button normal = whitespace hidden.

Your choice is saved and restored on the next app start.

Tips & gotchas

  • Only affects text and code clips — not image clips.
  • Trailing whitespace gets its own background highlight so it’s easy to spot even at the end of lines.
  • Text copied from Windows apps (Word, Notepad, browsers) often contains \r\n (CRLF) line endings. Show Whitespace makes the hidden \r characters visible. The editor normalizes these to \n on first save — see Edit Versioning for the diff implications.

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