Eclipse: I turned on hidden characters now I can't turn off

Question

Somehow I\'ve turned on hidden characters in Eclipse. It\'s not the \"whitespace\" characters in the general editor preferences. When turned on, it adds another layer of hid

Answer 1

Since this is not a standard setting, it could be the result of one of your extra plugin.

• Did you try starting your eclipse with the -clean parameter?
• Do you reproduce the issue with a fresh Eclipse installation?

Answer 2

CTRL + . does the job.

Answer 3

The right shortcut is Ctrl + N

UPDATE From Eclipse 3.7 version, something is changed... Now you have to go to:

Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors

Answer 4

Go to Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors

Uncheck the "Show whitespace characters" option on the right side of the page, then click "Apply" at the bottom of the page.

Answer 5

I have done this several times by accidentally hitting some keystrokes.

If you go to Windows/Preferences/General/Keys you will see all the keyboard shortcuts you have.

Mine is set to Control + . I had to place my cursor inside the document and do it a couple of times to make it work because there is also a keyboard shortcut for Control +

Hope that helps.

Answer 6

Sorry this is a bit vague but it's a while since i used Eclipse and i do not have it installed. I think this is it ..... in one of the menus you will find the Eclipse settings, there are two set's of settings, current project and overall Eclipse, you mat need to check them both. In there are various menus in tree form that allow you control the actions and look and feel. But some of them are nested so there is an overall control but some packages have their own options in a sub menu set. The menu's will expand when you click them and i'm afraid you need to walk through them all.