Re: Appropriate use of global-whitespace-mode and whitespace-mode

[Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

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On Thursday, November 28th, 2024 at 1:27 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 01:24:35PM +0000, Heime wrote:
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> > On Thursday, November 28th, 2024 at 1:12 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:58:34PM +0000, Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> > > 
> > > > What is the difference between global-whitespace-mode and whitespace-mode?
> > > > In what circumstances does one use one versus the other?
> > > 
> > > Emacs documentation, "25.2 Minor Modes" says it better
> > > than I ever could.
> > 
> > I do not know which emacs documentation you are referring to. I cannot
> > see mention of whitespace-mode and global-whitespace-mode.
> 
> 
> No, but about local vs global minor modes, of which yours is
> a special case.
> 
> Besides, C-h a whitespace-mode gives another good explanation.

I have some code with global-whitespace-mode  

(setq whitespace-style '(face tabs tab-mark trailing lines-char))

Would this work for whitespace-mode? Or is whitespace-mode a completely 
different program?