From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Hill Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Highlighting whitespace at EOL. Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:07:03 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20020402170722.GM27913@freebsdmall.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017860980 8924 127.0.0.1 (3 Apr 2002 19:09:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:09:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16sq8Z-0002Jp-00 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:09:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16sq86-00034l-00; Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: from renfield.synergymicro.com ([153.105.4.30] helo=synergymicro.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16sq68-0002mY-00 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:07:08 -0500 Original-Received: from synergy.synergy.encinitas.ca.us ([153.105.4.29]) by synergymicro.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29935; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:58:36 -0800 Original-Received: from [198.17.100.22] (G_Hill_Mac [198.17.100.22]) by synergy.synergy.encinitas.ca.us (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA30319; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:07:57 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020402170722.GM27913@freebsdmall.com> Original-To: Murray Stokely , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:43 Murray, Just last night I ran across a customization variable named "show-trailing-whitespace" in chapter 38 of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. It seems to be new with Emacs-21. At 9:07 AM -0800 4/2/02, Murray Stokely wrote: > I'm interested in writing a minor mode for marking up man pages with >the mdoc macros. One of the things I would like to do is have >whitespace characters at the end of a nonblank line show up in a >different color, so I can easily notice (and remove) these stray marks >(which can easily be done with a macro, but thats not the point). > > I don't need to setup a syntax table for something so trivial, do I? >Is there a good example minor mode to help learn some of this stuff? > > - Murray > >_______________________________________________ >Help-gnu-emacs mailing list >Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs