Hello, folks!
I'm in need of some assistance with the quantconnect.com web-based IDE.
Somehow, occasionally, a file I'm editing suddenly displays the whitespace indicators and I can't figure out how I enabled it or how to turn it off. When I start a new project, the main.py doesn't show whitespace. I can open an existing project that's never had it turned on, or create a new file, and it's nice and clean, but once it's on for a specific file, I can't turn it off. I must have accidentally hit a key combination that enabled this, but I have no idea what it could be; I'm unable to find anything related online.
I can copy and paste code from a file displaying the whitespace into a new file and it doesn't display.
I've tried deleting main.py, creating a new one, and it's on for the new file. Like the setting is being saved somewhere per-file, but not in the file itself.
How can I turn this off?! It's extremely annoying and messes with my concentration. I hate viewing whitespace unless I'm troubleshooting and want to see if I've misaligned something.
I'm currently on a free account.
Ryan Morrow
Update: I opened a project I haven't worked on in a few days and it still had the whitespace dots showing, but they went away when I hit Ctrl+Space to build the project. I'm certain I didn't hit anything but Ctrl+Space. What's up with that?!
Derek Melchin
Hi Ryan,
The whitespace being displayed is normally a sign of block misalignment.
After re-aligning the code block and successfully building the project, the whitespace display should automatically be removed.
Best,
Derek Melchin
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