Dreamweaver fails to show the hidden characters on the last tab that reopens on startup

[routeToWeb]

Every time I start Dreamweaver with the "Reopen documents on startup" option active, the file associated with the right most tab fails to show its hidden characters, whilst the other files do. I have to close the file then reopen it if I want to see the tabs, space etc. It's not a major bug, but it shouldn't be happening. Does anybody else have this issue and is there a fix?

[BenPleysier]

I'm so used to the work flow I have with DW that I'm not sure that I'm ready for the change. 

By @routeToWeb

It will not be long before you will be forced to change because DW will be removed soon. I jumped ship 8 years ago and had to go through the adjustment that you are talking about. Unfortunately, Wappler does not supoort showing hidden characters like VSCode, otherwise I would suggest Wappler.

I wish you luck!

[neraron]

@routeToWeb I found the reason for. It's based on the MMDocumentTypes.xml inside the configuration folder:

C:\Users\[yourUSER]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 2021\[your_LANG]\Configuration\DocumentTypes\

You have to add the attributes hasCodeColoring="true" and hasSyntaxHighlighting="true" to documenttypes, where you want to use it. It seems this setting got broken after some DW updates in the past and since them DW is only guessing which file-type is opended and this returns into this issue. There is no GUI-based setting anymore but it solved for me the problem.

Example:

<documenttype id="LESS" internaltype="Text" winfileextension="less" macfileextension="less" file="Default.less" writebyteordermark="false" mimetype="text/css" hasCodeColoring="true" hasSyntaxHighlighting="true">