renderWhitespace defaults to "selection", not "none"

[richardtallent]

The documentation says that renderWhitespace defaults to none.

However, I noticed in my code that it is defaulting to selection. I confirmed this by opening an empty playground and selecting some text. Setting this option to none manually resulted in the expected behavior.

monaco-editor version: 0.24.0
Browser: Chrome (latest)
OS: Windows 10
Playground code that reproduces the issue: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/playground.html

[hediet]

Nice catch and thanks for reporting! Feel free to do a PR on the VS Code repository that fixes the documentation! I'll help you to get it merged.

[richardtallent]

Thanks @hediet, I'd be happy to!

I would have already, but I can't actually find the repository that houses the docs. It's not listed in the contribution guidelines, doesn't appear to be in this repo, and I struck out searching for it:

https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
https://github.com/microsoft?q=monaco&type=&language=&sort=

Here's where it appears in the docs, but there's also no GitHub link there:

https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/api/interfaces/monaco.editor.ieditoroptions.html#renderwhitespace

[hediet]

Awesome! This repo does not contain the actual source code, it is all in the VS Code repo (the contribution guidelines should say so, if not, we need to update that).

I guess you mean the JS Doc? I think the source for it is here.

[richardtallent]

Thanks! That makes more sense now. I saw that file, but thought it was auto-generated from something else. Always a challenge to find one's way around a massive codebase for the first PR! :)

[hediet]

Understandably. Feel free to ping me in your PR against the VS Code repository!