bug#38192: [26.3] A problem with indentation on Whitespace minor mode

[Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>]

libr3 <libr3@tutanota.com> writes:

> There is a little problem, I guess that is by confusion, with two indentation functions.
>
> If we use this:
> (setq whitespace-style (quote (indentation::space)))
> in our configuration file on GNU Emacs (.emacs or init.el), we'll have the expected result for the next function:
> (setq whitespace-style (quote (indentation::tabs)))
> The same happen but with the inverse case.
>
> On other words, the function used has been exchanged with the other function.
>
> We can to test it too with
> M-x whitespace-toggle-options RET ?
> If we look the FACES table, and we had enabled just one aforementioned function, we'll see that the function enabled isn't the function
> that appear as enabled on the table (for example, if you had enabled indentation::space, it marks as enabled "toggle indentation TABs
> visualization" instead of the correct.

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to explain.

Could you please try to restate the problem you are seeing using other
words?

Please provide a step-by-step recipe of how to reproduce the issue,
starting from "emacs -Q".

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas