Bug #11333, whitespace mode does nothing. Is there a workaround?

Bug #11333, whitespace mode does nothing. Is there a workaround?

[Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto]

I am affected by bug #11333.
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11333

Whitespace mode claims to be active but it does nothing.  In every buffer I
have to turn it off then back on to make it work.

This is Ubuntu 13.04.  "emacs --version" outputs "24.2.1".
"apt-cache show emacs24" contains "Version: 24.2+1-2ubuntu2".

Is there an easy work-around?

Regards

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Re: Bug #11333, whitespace mode does nothing. Is there a workaround?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com> writes:

> I am affected by bug #11333.
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11333
>
> Whitespace mode claims to be active but it does nothing.  In every buffer I
> have to turn it off then back on to make it work.
>
> This is Ubuntu 13.04.  "emacs --version" outputs "24.2.1".
> "apt-cache show emacs24" contains "Version: 24.2+1-2ubuntu2".
>
> Is there an easy work-around?

You could either switch to emacs-snapshot.  Or you can try to download
the new version of whitespace.el and explicitly load this version from
your .emacs.

Michael.

Re: Bug #11333, whitespace mode does nothing. Is there a workaround?

[Jorge]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Michael Heerdegen
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> You could either switch to emacs-snapshot.

There is no emacs-snapshot in Ubuntu 13.04.

Anyway, I found an easier workaround: whitespace mode _globally_ with
global-whitespace-mode.

Regards

Re: Bug #11333, whitespace mode does nothing. Is there a workaround?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Jorge <1gato0a@gmail.com> writes:

> > You could either switch to emacs-snapshot.
>
> There is no emacs-snapshot in Ubuntu 13.04.

Not in the official releases.  I (Debian) use the package from
http://emacs.naquadah.org/.  At that page, there is a link to Ubuntu
packages: https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs.


Michael.

Re: Bug #11333, whitespace mode does nothing. Is there a workaround?

[Jorge]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Michael Heerdegen
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> [...]  I (Debian) use the package from http://emacs.naquadah.org/.  At that
> page, there is a link to Ubuntu packages:
> https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs.

  Thank you for the information.  For the moment, I have worked around the
aforementioned bug.  But Emacs snapshot entices me.  Is it reasonably stable?
Does it have important new functionality?  Are there any regressions?

Regards

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