bug#55881: Request: Use of face for whitespace-style

[goncholden via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

------- Original Message -------
On Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 9:51 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:


> goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com writes:
>
> > Because tab-mark, tabs, trailing, etc ... work via faces, could the requirement for
> > faces declaration be removed from whitespace-style?
> >
> > In summary, from
> >
> > (setq whitespace-style '(face tab-mark tabs trailing))
> >
> > to
> >
> > (setq whitespace-style '(tab-mark tabs trailing))
>
>
> No. As the doc string says:
>
> ---
> One reason to not use faces to visualize spaces (i.e., not
> include `face' in` whitespace-style') is to use `whitespace-mode' only for cleaning up a buffer. See` whitespace-cleanup' and
> `whitespace-cleanup-region'.
> ---

Could whitespace-cleanup and whitespace-cleanup-region decide by themselves what they have to do?

> Closing.
>
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