From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 23 whitespace-mode, change newline display glyph
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:55:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h6e8bu$aml$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33a6e74d-972d-4fab-b67d-937a881087cd@m7g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
Xah Lee wrote:
> On Aug 12, 5:44 am, CHENG Gao <cheng...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> in my emacs 23 both on Windows and Mac, the white space shows as $,
>>> not ¶, when in whitespace-mode or whitespace-newline-mode.
>>> How to make it show line breaks using ¶ ?
>>> i tried to read the doc... which took me too See also `whitespace-
>>> style', `whitespace-newline' and `whitespace-display-mappings', and
>>> customize... but its rather confusing.
>
>> Through reading whitespace-mode source, I found this works:
>> (setq whitespace-display-mappings '(
>> (newline-mark 10
>> [182 10])))
>
> it turns out, you have to set the whole list, not just one. The above
> will basically make it not display any glyphs to tabs and spaces.
>
> I spent several hours looking into this, here's the solution:
>
> (setq whitespace-display-mappings
> '(
> (space-mark 32 [183] [46]) ; normal space
> (space-mark 160 [164] [95])
> (space-mark 2208 [2212] [95])
> (space-mark 2336 [2340] [95])
> (space-mark 3616 [3620] [95])
> (space-mark 3872 [3876] [95])
> (newline-mark 10 [182 10]) ; newlne
> (tab-mark 9 [9655 9] [92 9]) ; tab
> ))
Why not just:
(require 'whitespace-mode)
(setq whitespace-display-mappings
(cons '(newline-mark 10 [182 10]) whitespace-display-mappings))
> more detail here:
>
> • How to use and setup Emacs's whitespace-mode
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/whitespace-mode.html
>
> Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄
>
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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2009-08-12 12:21 ` emacs 23 whitespace-mode, change newline display glyph Xah Lee
2009-08-12 12:44 ` CHENG Gao
2009-08-12 13:47 ` Xah Lee
2009-08-16 14:19 ` Stefan Vollmar
2009-08-15 8:45 ` Xah Lee
2009-08-18 12:55 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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