From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46590: 27.1.91; abnormal whitespace-mode behavior Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:54:07 +0200 Message-ID: <838s7evkyo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210217150614.1eaecfdd@Cornafion.lan> <837dn3143m.fsf@gnu.org> <20210223150547.45f58520@Cornafion.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12726"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 46590@debbugs.gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric?= Baldit Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 23 16:55:19 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lEa1u-0003Ay-EU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:55:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39284 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lEa1t-0007MR-D8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:55:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58880) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lEa1d-0007Kj-QK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:55:01 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:48715) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lEa1d-0007Yh-Ip for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:55:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lEa1d-0003Dr-Hf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:55:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:55:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46590 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 46590-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46590.161409567712348 (code B ref 46590); Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:55:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46590) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Feb 2021 15:54:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60258 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lEa11-0003Cm-QX for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:54:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40892) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lEa10-0003CY-Gn for 46590@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:54:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47155) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lEa0v-0007ED-7G; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:54:17 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3523 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lEa0u-0005HF-Gv; Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:54:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20210223150547.45f58520@Cornafion.lan> (message from =?UTF-8?Q?Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric?= Baldit on Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:05:47 +0100) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:200661 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:05:47 +0100 > From: Frédéric Baldit > Cc: 46590@debbugs.gnu.org > > I just began reading whitespace.el, in particular the use of the > display table, which seems to be crucial here. But I'm just > learning emacs (and emacs lisp), so there could be a long way > before I can truly (and deeply) understand whitespace.el code and see > how to fix the bug. I don't think this can be fixed without a complete redesign how a TAB is displayed under this mode. display-tables simply cannot deal with such situations. But I didn't think about this too long, so maybe I'm missing something. > I asked myself: should I contact the maintainer of whitespace.el > (Vinicius Jose Latorre) to get some help? I don't know, but what do you have to lose?