From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Highlight tabulated and trailing whitespace Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 08:41:58 +0100 Message-ID: <87tus6gywp.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87ft3qilf6.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1937"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:dd0FDBXSaH2wQh2U0OdMp79JtjI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 28 08:48:33 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1ktnGb-0000P4-L0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 08:48:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52490 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktnGa-0000fF-NU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 02:48:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktnAQ-0003xW-DQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 02:42:10 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:43466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktnAO-00069W-Qn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 02:42:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ktnAL-0003qt-5g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 08:42:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126840 Archived-At: steve-humphreys wrote: > I have tried to show tab marks, but the following commands > are confusing me. One can use a backgrouund colour and > introduce a tab mark. But I have no idea how to > achieve them. > > (setq whitespace-style '(face tabs)) Then just set the `whitespace-tab' face, to some face other than what the default face has, (insert "\t <-- this is a tab") and enable the mode. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal