Emacs 20 Antinews - unclear entry

Emacs 20 Antinews - unclear entry

[Paul Stoeber]

One entry of Emacs 20 Antinews (distributed with Emacs 21):

        - The variable `show-trailing-whitespace' has no special
          meaning, so trailing whitespace on a line is now always
          displayed correctly: as empty space.  To see if a line ends
          with spaces or tabs, type `C-e' on that line.  Likewise,
          empty lines at the end of the buffer are not marked in any
          way; use `M->' to see where the end of the buffer is.

I don't grasp the sentence with "`M->'".  When I go to
`*scratch*', set `show-trailing-whitespace' to `t', and
add some empty lines at the bottom of the buffer, I still
have to type `M->' too see the end of buffer.  Perhaps my
terminal can't show the face used to highlight the trailing
empty lines.  The docstring of `show-trailing-whitespace'
mentions only one face, `trailing-whitespace', which my
terminal _does_ display.  What am I missing?

Re: Emacs 20 Antinews - unclear entry

[Marco Baringer]

Paul Stoeber <paul.stoeber@stud.tu-ilmenau.de> writes:

> One entry of Emacs 20 Antinews (distributed with Emacs 21):
> 
>         - The variable `show-trailing-whitespace' has no special
>           meaning, so trailing whitespace on a line is now always
>           displayed correctly: as empty space.  To see if a line ends
>           with spaces or tabs, type `C-e' on that line.  Likewise,
>           empty lines at the end of the buffer are not marked in any
>           way; use `M->' to see where the end of the buffer is.
> 
> I don't grasp the sentence with "`M->'".  When I go to
> `*scratch*', set `show-trailing-whitespace' to `t', and
> add some empty lines at the bottom of the buffer, I still
> have to type `M->' too see the end of buffer.  Perhaps my
> terminal can't show the face used to highlight the trailing
> empty lines.  The docstring of `show-trailing-whitespace'
> mentions only one face, `trailing-whitespace', which my
> terminal _does_ display.  What am I missing?

i think it refers to the gray bar on the far left of a frame. there
are small white square on the left starting at the end of the buffer
text. 

-- 
-Marco
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Forget the perfect offering.
There's a crack in everything.
It's how the light gets in.
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Emacs 20 Antinews - unclear entry

[Paul Stoeber]

Emacs 21.2.1.  One entry of Emacs 20 Antinews:

        - The variable `show-trailing-whitespace' has no special
          meaning, so trailing whitespace on a line is now always
          displayed correctly: as empty space.  To see if a line ends
          with spaces or tabs, type `C-e' on that line.  Likewise,
          empty lines at the end of the buffer are not marked in any
          way; use `M->' to see where the end of the buffer is.

I don't grasp the sentence with "`M->'".  When I go to
`*scratch*', set `show-trailing-whitespace' to `t',
and append some empty lines to the buffer, I still have
to type `M->' too see the end of buffer.  I can't see
any distinction with TERM=linux, with TERM=screen (over
TERM=linux), with TERM=xterm, or with Emacs running in an
X window.  The trailing-whitespace red bars I see, but
not the end of buffer.  I did redraw with C-l.  What am
I missing?