Feature Request: Editor option to only display/highlight `tabs` whitespace
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Since Sep 20, 2026.
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Description
Right now using the option editor.renderWhitespace both tabs and spaces will be displayed in the Editor. It would be useful to have another option to display either tabs or spaces. I only want to display/highlight tabs, since i do not want to use them and have some kind of visual info about them being used so i can remove them.
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