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		fennecfoxen on Dec 1, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Coffeescript’s Whitespace More Significant It's true; you could use syntax highlighting or IDE features to make things more obvious. You could also turn on syntax highlighting in Whitespace. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_languag... This is, of course, significantly more ridiculous than an IDE helping you out with your CoffeeScript, so don't take my teasing too seriously ;)

thedufer on Dec 1, 2011 [–]

My response was meant in much the same tone as yours; I use vim and, while I have never needed visible whitespace, I don't have any indication that its an easy thing to do.

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