Highlighter

Archived since I don't use Sublime Text anymore.

A plugin for Sublime Text (ST2 and ST3) to highlight mixed tabs and spaces, some unicode characters and trailing space.

Additional highlighted characters

These characters are highlighted by default:

• U+2026 Horizontal ellipsis
• U+2018 Left single quotation mark
• U+2019 Right single quotation mark
• U+201c Left double quotation mark
• U+201d Right double quotation mark
• U+2013 En dash
• U+2014 Em dash
• U+00a0 Non-breaking space
• U+3000 Ideographic spaces

Key bindings

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+h : Toggle highlighting on/off.

Menu commands

You can toggle highlighting in the View menu. The setting is per view, and not saved to disk. This can be changed in the settings, see below.

Configuration

You can override the default settings by creating a file in Packages/User/highlighter.sublime-settings: Check the default highlighter.sublime-settings file for available settings.

Syntax ignore

You can add a list of syntaxes to ignore with the following setting:

{
  "highlighter_syntax_ignore": ["Python", "PHP"]
}

Save toggled state

To persist the toggled state to disk, set the following to true:

{
  "highlighter_save_settings_on_change": true
}

Custom regex

You can customise the regex to highlight:

highlighter_regex <- Matching characters highlighted with fill and outline
highlighter_regex_cool <- Matching characters highlighted with stippled underline

{
  "highlighter_regex": "(\t+ +(?![*]))|( +\t+)|([\t ]+$)",
  "highlighter_regex_cool": "[\u2026\u2018\u2019\u201c\u201d\u2013\u2014\u00a0]"
}