Default is set to display space and tab for all buffers via plugin options pane. Have clicked on actions via menu Plugins->Whitespace and reloaded buffers as well. Whitespace is not being displayed.

Do You have Whitespace plugin Version 0.9.3 installed?

If so, I would check which display colors are chosen in the plugin options. Then I would try to remove (or at least rename) jedit's settings directory. For that, jEdit (server) don't must be running - in doubt kill the JVM.

Robert

Yes, 0.9.3 is installed. I renamed the .jedit directory and started over with a fresh jedit. I installed whitespace (and only whitespace). I changed the settings to default, closed jedit, and restarted. Whitespace still does not show.

It is acting like it did when I did not have the JDK installed, but package manager tells me that it is installed. I marked it for reinstallation and then restarted jedit. Still, no love.

How can I check under the hood to make sure whitespace is looking in the right place for java/jdk or that I have java/jdk installed in the correct place for jedit to pick it up?

Not sure if it matters, 'cause usually it affects all of jEdit and not a single plugin, but do you have eye-candy (beryl, compiz) installed, and running?

If so, you might try turning it off and see if that helps.

Any errors that are occurring should appear in the activity log. You might want to tail it as you startup jEdit to see if Whitespace is throwing any exceptions as it's started up.

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I am using compiz fusion. I've turned off all of the effects but still no whitespace. I can't really get rid of compiz altogether or else I won't have a window manager.

I found another post from you about adding "AWT_Toolkit"=MT_Toolkit. I put those lines in /etc/environment and .bashrc but those didn't seem to do anything either. I haven't tried putting it in /usr/bin/jedit.

Here is some more info about the internals

7:50:13 PM [main] [message] Log: When reporting bugs, please include the following information:
7:50:13 PM [main] [message] Log: java.version=1.6.0_13
7:50:13 PM [main] [message] Log: java.vm.version=11.3-b02
7:50:13 PM [main] [message] Log: java.runtime.version=1.6.0_13-b03
7:50:13 PM [main] [message] Log: java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
7:50:13 PM [main] [message] Log: java.compiler=null
7:50:13 PM [main] [message] Log: os.name=Linux
7:50:13 PM [main] [message] Log: os.version=2.6.28-11-generic
7:50:13 PM [main] [message] Log: os.arch=i386
7:50:13 PM [main] [message] Log: user.home=/home/raklet
7:50:13 PM [main] [message] Log: java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.13/jre
7:50:13 PM [main] [message] Log: java.class.path=/usr/share/jedit/jedit.jar

Log activity filtered for whitespace

7:50:14 PM [main] [debug] EditBus: PluginUpdate[what=LOADED,exit=false,source=/home/raklet/.jedit/jars/WhiteSpace.jar,class=whitespace.WhiteSpacePlugin]
7:50:14 PM [main] [debug] PluginJAR: Activating whitespace.WhiteSpacePlugin because of startup
7:50:14 PM [main] [debug] PluginJAR: Opening /home/raklet/.jedit/jars/WhiteSpace.jar
7:50:14 PM [main] [debug] EditBus: PluginUpdate[what=ACTIVATED,exit=false,source=/home/raklet/.jedit/jars/WhiteSpace.jar,class=whitespace.WhiteSpacePlugin]
7:53:04 PM [AWT-EventQueue-0] [debug] ActionSet: Loading actions from jeditresource:/WhiteSpace.jar!/actions.xml

Hmm. Very weird. What are your whitespace settings?

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Show spaces by default
Show tabs by default
Show fold guides by default


That's it. Very simple.

And from the properties file.....

white-space.block-color=\#565b5b
white-space.fold-color=\#003366
white-space.show-leading-space-default=true
white-space.show-space-default=true
white-space.show-tab-default=true
white-space.space-color=\#727b84
white-space.tab-color=\#6c92b8
white-space.whitespace-color=\#ff6600

Weird..........I guess we can close this out for now, as it is working.

From the plugin menu, I started enabling every option available. As I got down into the tab section, the whitespace characters showed up and now they are behaving as they should.

Sorry if this was a goose chase. Thanks to everyone for their help.

Very odd. I wonder if it was just a simple case of the settings being wiped out or reset somehow.

So that even when the plugin was enabled, it simply wasn't showing anything.

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