On 22 Jul 2008, at 21:53, Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote:
>>
>> I would still want the pilcrow to be used by default and the more  
>> (s/t)ame colors for the face.
>> But that may well be the default for whitespace in general.
>
> Well, you can change the whitespace-newline and whitespace-display- 
> mappings settings in your ~/.emacs file.

... so we don't have to set sensible defaults?

> BTW, I also prefer the pilcrow.


The default has to be sensible, and this is quite possibly different  
for the full-blown whitespace-mode and for this show-newlines-mode.

Since unicode is no problem, I would suggest to use the pilcrow for  
both modes, and stick to no background color and grey foreground for  
the show-newlines-mode.