https://github.com/mcauley-penney/visual-whitespace.nvim

Highlight whitespace in visual mode
https://github.com/mcauley-penney/visual-whitespace.nvim

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Highlight whitespace in visual mode

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mcauley-penney/visual-whitespace.nvim
• Owner: mcauley-penney
• Created: 2024-03-09T19:15:13.000Z (4 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-12T15:27:26.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-12T20:29:42.442Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Lua
• Size: 6.84 KB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md

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• awesome-neovim - mcauley-penney/visual-whitespace.nvim - See whitespace characters in Visual selections, like VSCode. (Utility / Cursorline)
• trackawesomelist - mcauley-penney/visual-whitespace.nvim (⭐10) - See whitespace characters in Visual selections, like VSCode. (Recently Updated / [Mar 11, 2024](/content/2024/03/11/README.md))
• my-neovim-pluginlist - mcauley-penney/visual-whitespace.nvim - penney/visual-whitespace.nvim)   (View / listchars)

README

        
# visual-whitespace.nvim 🔎

Reveal whitespace characters in visual mode, similar to VSCode.

![vis-ws](https://github.com/mcauley-penney/visual-whitespace.nvim/assets/59481467/5d8b1e9a-e1b6-479a-b1d1-fcf0162fa4a8)

## Installation and configuration

To install it with the default settings using Lazy:

```lua

  {

   'mcauley-penney/visual-whitespace.nvim',

    config = true

  }

```

`visual-whitespace` comes with the following default settings:

```lua

    opts = {

     highlight = { link = 'Visual' },

     space_char = '·',

     tab_char = '→',

     nl_char = '↲'

    },

```

## Credit

- [This post on the Neovim subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1b1sv3a/function_to_get_visually_selected_text/), for doing a lot of the math for me

- [aaron-p1/match-visual.nvim](https://github.com/aaron-p1/match-visual.nvim)