Re: 24.3 status update

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Lluís.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 09:47:19PM +0100, Lluís wrote:
> This brings up an uncolored scratch buffer:

>   emacs -q --eval '(global-whitespace-mode t)'

I can't reproduce this in the latest emacs-24 branch.

> while this brings it up with colors:

>   emacs -q --eval '(message "buh")'

I believe you.  :-)

> This is using Julien's emacs-snapshot 2:20130224-1.


> I've also been unable to disable whitespace-mode for a very long time (when
> disable, it still shows its highlight colors), but I've been too lazy to fill-in
> a bug report.

I can confirm this bug (in the latest emacs-24 branch).  To reproduce it,
start emacs as the first invocation above.
(i) M-x whitespace-mode doesn't undo GWMode, rather it has no visible
effect aside from adding "ws" to "WS" in the mode line.
(ii) Now M-x global-whitespace-mode simply removes "WS" from the mode
line.
(iii) Now M-x whitespace-mode fails to undo its effect in the window.

This show there's non-standard semantics for
\(global-\)?-whitespace-mode.

> Thanks,
>   Lluis

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).