Switch to `tabpad` configuration option (#3458)

Virtual whitespace tabs are created from the `tab` character padded
with `tabpad` up to  the tab width.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/helix-view/src/editor.rs b/helix-view/src/editor.rs
index 1e7f508c..18c2a343 100644
--- a/helix-view/src/editor.rs
+++ b/helix-view/src/editor.rs
@@ -438,6 +438,7 @@ pub struct WhitespaceCharacters {
     pub space: char,
     pub nbsp: char,
     pub tab: char,
+    pub tabpad: char,
     pub newline: char,
 }
 
@@ -448,6 +449,7 @@ impl Default for WhitespaceCharacters {
             nbsp: '⍽',    // U+237D
             tab: '→',     // U+2192
             newline: '⏎', // U+23CE
+            tabpad: ' ',
         }
     }
 }