Whitespace Characters

[wbw20]

Hello

Great project. Have you guys ever considered an option for displaying whitespace characters in the match results? Kind of like Sublime Text does?

Maybe it could be a toggle option or something? Just a thought. If there is interest I can work on a PR.

[jonmagic]

I'd never thought of it, seems like an interesting idea though. Can you give an example of where it would be helpful when building a regular expression?

[wbw20]

When you are matching whitespace characters it is difficult to see exactly what the capture groups have in them. Maybe this isn't a problem for most people but it is something I was trying to do.

[jonmagic]

Makes sense to me 👍 I think this would be a good feature for the tool, I'd love to see a pull request ✨

Not this week, but next week I would probably have some time to pair program too if you were interested in pairing on it at all (I usually use Screenhero, but it looks like they have been acquired and don't allow new signups).

[wbw20]

Hey Jon,

I had a little extra time today so I threw together a prototype. Let me know if you like the direction it is going. ✌️

wbw20/scriptular@wbw20:master...show_whitespace_chars

[jonmagic]

@wbw20 I dig it 👍 Looks good and conveys valuable information.

[jonmagic]

Any interest in opening a PR with your changes?