Sublime Text 2: how to change white space characters color?

Question

The color seems to be linked to the foreground in themes. I assume it\'s using less alpha. Is there a way to control this?

Answer 1

There's now a Sublime plugin for this.

1. Install the HighlightWhitespaces plugin

2. Add the following color settings (tailored to your preference) to your color_scheme file. This file ends in .tmTheme and the path can be found by looking at the value for the key "color_scheme" in your settings file.

   
     name
     highlight.whitespace
     scope
     highlight.whitespace
     settings
     
       background
       #020202
       foreground
       #805050
     
   
   

3. Specify that this color should be used by adding the following to the user settings of the HighlightWhitespaces plugin:

   {
       "highlight_whitespaces_space_highlight_scope_name": "highlight.whitespace",
       "highlight_whitespaces_tab_highlight_scope_name": "highlight.whitespace",
       "highlight_whitespaces_eol_highlight_scope_name": "highlight.whitespace",
       "highlight_whitespaces_mixed_highlight_scope_name": "highlight.whitespace"
   }
   

4. Relax and enjoy :-)