From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: whitespace-mode highlighting colour Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 12:27:35 +0100 Message-ID: <87turx9c2g.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87ble96maf.fsf@zoho.eu> <87y2h99i6p.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38197"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:yWPNBDJUqYOP4UCcp5A/oQ+LOzk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 04 12:28:18 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kwO24-0009nY-Ly for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 12:28:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40956 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwO23-0000C8-H2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 06:28:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33640) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwO1b-0000At-6C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 06:27:47 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:58116) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwO1Z-0005u1-JI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 06:27:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kwO1W-000962-T9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 12:27:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126986 Archived-At: michael-franzese wrote: > I want the highlight tabs and trailing spaces. You say that > the variable is obsolete. > How would be best to tackle the task. I guess it means one should use the face, not the variable. I do this so I don't have to bother with trailing whitespace or tabs. Maybe one can configure that in an easier way, because it feels like a basic thing to do. (defun untab-all () (unless (member major-mode '(makefile-gmake-mode makefile-mode) ) ; exceptions (untabify (point-min) (point-max))) nil) ; tell "did not write buffer to disk" (setq-default tab-width 3) (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) ;; (setq before-save-hook nil) (defun before-save-hook-f () (untab-all) (delete-trailing-whitespace) ) (add-hook 'before-save-hook #'before-save-hook-f) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal