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View aids

A set of View menu toggles that change how the text is displayed without touching its content — render whitespace and line endings, draw indentation guides, wrap long lines, and hide everything but the text for distraction-free editing.

Each render toggle applies to every open document and to new tabs, and (except Zen mode) is remembered between sessions.

Display toggles

View menu:

Aid What it does Persisted?
Word Wrap Wraps long lines to the window width instead of scrolling horizontally. Off by default. Yes
Show Whitespace Renders spaces and tabs as visible marks, so you can tell them apart and spot trailing spaces. Off by default. Yes
Show End of Line Renders the line-ending characters (CR / LF), making the EOL style and any mixed endings visible. Off by default. Yes

Indentation guides

View ▸ Indentation Guides — an exclusive submenu:

Option What it draws
None No guides.
Real Vertical guide lines at each real indentation level.
Both Guides that also look ahead/behind across blank lines so they stay continuous.

The guide for the block containing the caret is highlighted, so you can see which level you're editing in. The setting is remembered between sessions.

Zen mode

View ▸ Zen Mode — shortcut F11 (⌃⌘F on macOS).

Goes fullscreen and hides the surrounding chrome — menu bar, status bar, dock panels and tab bars — leaving just the text. Press F11 again to exit; the editor restores exactly the elements it hid. (The F11 shortcut keeps working while the menu bar is hidden.) Zen mode is not persisted — you always start a session in the normal layout.