From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: removing white space highlight Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:08:06 -0700 Message-ID: <20160220120357638044819@bob.proulx.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455995314 12542 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2016 19:08:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 19:08:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Luca Ferrari Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 20:08:25 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aXCtC-0007yj-8B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 20:08:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35008 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXCtB-0001ko-Cz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:08:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXCt1-0001jK-6O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:08:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXCsy-0006HP-1G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:08:11 -0500 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:34182) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXCsx-0006HL-S7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C75349F; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:08:07 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD512211DE; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:08:06 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B6E332DC5F; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:08:06 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: Luca Ferrari , help-gnu-emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109226 Archived-At: Luca Ferrari wrote: > for some reason I don't know after applying a few theme settings I > have Emacs now highlighting rows with only white spaces. > That is a little annoying to me, so I'm wondering what is the > customize-* I accidentally broke. > Any suggestion is welcome. I didn't see anyone suggest actually fixing the file to remove those lines with trailing whitespace but I think is the best answer. That is the entire reason for the trailing whitespace highlighting in the first place. Make them visible instead of invisible so that they will be addressed. I know that a lot of people will say that it is whitespace and they don't care. Many years ago I would have been one of those people. But now that version control is everywhere (among other things) I am now sensitive to whitespace causing useless diffs in files. Whitespace that I never cared about before is now cruft that I always clean in order to avoid noisy diffs. Therefore I suggest cleaning the whitespace cruft from those files and then the annoying highlight face won't be shown anymore. :-) Bob