On 21 Jul 2008, at 00:49, Chong Yidong wrote:
> If anyone on this list has a patch that is still waiting for  
> approval or
> further comments, now would be a good time to ping.


OK, there is still the paragraph marking function. The following two  
major items (and some smaller issues) have been addressed:

Stefan Monnier:

> My font doesn't seem to know the char 2230, and UnicodeData.txt  
> doesn't
> seem to know that char either.  So we should probably use something  
> else.

On 18 Jul 2008, at 11:30, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>
> whitespace.el already has many many ways of dealing with whitespaces,
> wouldn't this mode be a better fit in whitespace.el?


Any objections to the patch below.
Can't put it in simple.el because make-glyph-code can't be autoloaded,  
and the code is probably happy in whitespace.el.

- D




*** whitespace.el	06 May 2008 03:57:59 -0400	1.80
--- whitespace.el	21 Jul 2008 11:04:45 -0400	
***************
*** 2352,2357 ****
--- 2352,2406 ----
         (whitespace-mode -1)))
     nil)					; continue standard unloading

+ 
+ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
+
+
+
+ ;; Show-newlines-mode
+ (defface blank-newline
+  '((((class color) (background dark))
+     (:foreground "lightgrey" :bold nil))
+    (((class color) (background light))
+     ( :foreground "lightgrey" :bold nil))
+    (t (:bold nil :underline t)))
+  "Face used to visualize NEWLINE char mapping.
+
+ See `blank-display-mappings'."
+  :group 'blank)
+
+ (defvar show-newlines-newline-code
+   (vector (make-glyph-code 182 'blank-newline) 10))
+
+ ;;;###autoload
+ (define-minor-mode show-newlines-mode
+   "Mark newlines in current buffer"
+   :group 'convenience
+
+   (unless buffer-display-table
+     (setq buffer-display-table
+ 	  (or standard-display-table (make-display-table))))
+   (aset buffer-display-table 10
+ 	(if show-newlines-mode show-newlines-newline-code)))
+
+ ;;;###autoload
+ (define-minor-mode global-show-newlines-mode
+  "Mark newlines in all buffers"
+  :group 'convenience
+  :global t
+
+  (unless standard-display-table
+    (setq standard-display-table (make-display-table)))
+  (if global-show-newlines-mode
+      (aset standard-display-table 10 show-newlines-newline-code)
+    (aset standard-display-table 10 nil))
+  (dolist (buffer (buffer-list))
+    (with-current-buffer buffer
+      (if buffer-display-table
+ 	 (show-newlines-mode
+ 	  (if global-show-newlines-mode 1 -1))))))
+
+

   (provide 'whitespace)

*** menu-bar.el	10 Jul 2008 00:27:23 -0400	1.341
--- menu-bar.el	21 Jul 2008 11:45:01 -0400	
***************
*** 653,659 ****
     (let ((need-save nil))
       ;; These are set with menu-bar-make-mm-toggle, which does not
       ;; put on a customized-value property.
!     (dolist (elt '(line-number-mode column-number-mode size- 
indication-mode
   		   cua-mode show-paren-mode transient-mark-mode
   		   blink-cursor-mode display-time-mode display-battery-mode))
         (and (customize-mark-to-save elt)
--- 653,660 ----
     (let ((need-save nil))
       ;; These are set with menu-bar-make-mm-toggle, which does not
       ;; put on a customized-value property.
!     (dolist (elt '(global-show-newlines-mode line-number-mode
! 		   column-number-mode size-indication-mode
   		   cua-mode show-paren-mode transient-mark-mode
   		   blink-cursor-mode display-time-mode display-battery-mode))
         (and (customize-mark-to-save elt)
***************
*** 700,705 ****
--- 701,714 ----

   (defvar menu-bar-showhide-menu (make-sparse-keymap "Show/Hide"))

+ (define-key menu-bar-showhide-menu [show-newlines-mode]
+  (menu-bar-make-mm-toggle global-show-newlines-mode
+ 			   "Show Newlines"
+ 			   "Show hard newlines"))
+
+ (define-key menu-bar-showhide-menu [newlines-separator]
+   '("--"))
+
   (define-key menu-bar-showhide-menu [column-number-mode]
     (menu-bar-make-mm-toggle column-number-mode
   			   "Column Numbers"