Qie Lei

In the default Gutenberg visual editor, multiple spaces you enter are often “merged” and cannot be seen. This plugin solves this problem by converting consecutive spaces to HTML   entities, preserving the visual spacing.
Features: 
– Converts second and subsequent spaces in a sequence to   entities 
– First space remains a regular space (Gutenberg default behavior) 
– Works anywhere in the content, not just at paragraph starts 
– Option to apply to all content or only new content 
– Preserves spaces within pre/code blocks
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<li>Author’s blog: https://www.qielei.com</li>
<li>Improvement suggestions or problem feedback: qielei@gmail.com</li>
</ul>

Real Editor Space

Preserves real spaces in WordPress Gutenberg editor by converting multiple spaces to   entities.

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This plug-in is totally designed for developers.
You know, that sort of people who post code snippets in their blog regularly and hardly use the Visual Editor, 
because they write the HTML themselves. But they don’t like WordPress messing with their quotes and dashes, 
so this plug-in makes sure no one touches one of their lovingly crafted lines of code.
It’s also very minimalistic – less than 10k, not counting the GeSHi syntax highlighting library which is also included.
In addition, it’s also lazy. It will try to avoid doing as much work as possible. 
That is good, because it will not eat resources like other plug-ins out there.
<h3>Usage</h3>
Whenever you want to post some syntax highlighted code, surround it with <code><code lang="language"></code></code>. That’s it.
Example:
<pre><code><code lang="php">
class HelloWorld()
{
 public function __construct()
 {
 echo "This is an unnecessarily long version of Hello World";
 }
}
</code>
</code></pre>
The ‘lang’ attribute can be entirely omitted. You will get whitespace, quotes and dashes preservation… but no highlighting.
<h3>Uninstall</h3>
Just deactivate the plug-in, and remove its folder from the wp-content/plugins directory.
<h3>Thanks</h3>
Big thanks to the creators of the GeSHi library. Without it, the output of this plug-in would be very boring. 
Here’s its homepage: http://qbnz.com/highlighter/
The following plug-ins were invaluable sources of inspiration and how-to-do-it-right:
<ul>
<li>Preserve Code Formatting, by Scott Reilly (http://coffee2code.com)</li>
<li>Code Snippet, by Roman Roan. Now maintained by Wyatt Neal (http://blog.hackerforhire.org/code-snippet/)</li>
</ul>
You could say this plug-in is the sum of the essence of both plug-ins.

SyHi

Minimalistic Syntax Highlighter plug-in which also makes sure code can still be copied and pasted into your favourite compiler!

Real Editor Space vs SyHi