From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: replacement for whitespace-tab Date: 23 Oct 2017 23:45:17 GMT Message-ID: Reply-To: wbparsons@cshore.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508802636 31463 195.159.176.226 (23 Oct 2017 23:50:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 23:50:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (CYGWIN_NT-6.1) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 24 01:50:33 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e6mUC-0006br-St for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2017 01:50:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6mUK-0004UB-2Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:50:32 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: individual.net ieNqb7M6jHzVS3FRPgJ7sQIZMeumIzke8+dG0nkwTucTZJOfTD Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kn3fktuY1FviWwGn8dUd5TRuoyM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:220506 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114614 Archived-At: I noticed that in one of my Emacs configurations I had customized the value of whitespace-tab to better distinguish visually tabs from spaces. When I did a C-h v on the variable (under Emacs 25.2) I got the message: This variable is obsolete since 24.4; use the face instead. Unfortunately, this extremely terse message gives me no useful information on how to actually *replace* whitespace-tab. I have looked under the customization buffer under Faces and see no obvious candidates for highlighting tabs, looked under Emacs News in vain, and searched the web (which frustratingly tends to yield a lot of obsolete information). So what *is* the officially approved way nowadays of highlighting tabs? -- Will