Re: [rudalics@gmx.at: whitespace.el's permanent-locals]

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

"Rajesh Vaidheeswarran" <rv@gnu.org> writes:
> If I remember the reason correctly, it was because  wanted the ability
> to toggle on/off the check for and correct the various types of
> whitespaces to be on a per-buffer basis.

Just make it a normal minor mode.  I see no reason to do otherwise.

Indeed, this is exactly the sort of minor-mode which is likely to get
put into hook functions for various major-modes because the user wants
to control whitespace in that mode.  In such a case (and I think it's
the most common one) the parameters are much more likely to be
_mode_-specific rather than buffer-specific.

-miles
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