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

[tomas@tuxteam.de]

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 01:37:36PM +0000, Heime wrote:
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> On Thursday, November 28th, 2024 at 1:27 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
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> > 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:
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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.
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> > > I do not know which emacs documentation you are referring to. I cannot
> > > see mention of whitespace-mode and global-whitespace-mode.
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> > No, but about local vs global minor modes, of which yours is
> > a special case.
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> > Besides, C-h a whitespace-mode gives another good explanation.
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> I have some code with global-whitespace-mode  
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> (setq whitespace-style '(face tabs tab-mark trailing lines-char))
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> Would this work for whitespace-mode? Or is whitespace-mode a completely 
> different program?

What does C-h f whitespace-mode say? And what C-h f global-whitespace-mode?
What do you see if you follow the source link in the above doc for
global-whitespace-mode?

Cheers
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