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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Appropriate use of global-whitespace-mode and whitespace-mode
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:27:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z0ceNWUyoX+gvG/r@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ttW9XV3XXzfF2LgmSvOq1V4H6OoGeCCziT12MMOl4PtZhMbCbI34Em3DM7HKXEo3fLfe_CHT0dNoT0jjuABGofEaqRQ-DyBxBVqmcVHF1o=@protonmail.com>

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 01:24:35PM +0000, Heime wrote:
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> Sent with Proton Mail secure email.
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> On Thursday, November 28th, 2024 at 1:12 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:58:34PM +0000, Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
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> > > What is the difference between global-whitespace-mode and whitespace-mode?
> > > In what circumstances does one use one versus the other?
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> > 
> > 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.

Cheers
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t

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-27 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-27 12:58 Appropriate use of global-whitespace-mode and whitespace-mode Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-11-27 13:12 ` tomas
2024-11-27 13:24   ` Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-11-27 13:27     ` tomas [this message]
2024-11-27 13:37       ` Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-11-27 13:42         ` tomas
2024-11-27 14:28           ` Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-11-27 14:29             ` tomas

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