Yes, I am now really confused. Looks like I missed the booting out of the
whitespace.el that I wrote. I did see that the whitespace-buffer was
behaving differently, but chalked it up to me being tired late at night.

So, I guess, at this point, someone else is responsible for fixing this.

rv

On Feb 7, 2008 1:03 AM, Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> wrote:

> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> >> That's good. However, I'm unable to reproduce it on the installed emacs
> >> in fencepost.
> >
> > In case you're confused, the whitespace.el in question is not the one
> > you wrote (as far as I can tell). Someone recently renamed that one to
> > old-whitespace.el and installed a new one, which seems like a recipe
> > for exactly this kind of confusion. This "whitespace.el" is only in
> > the Emacs CVS trunk (I think).
>
> I gather that Richard wanted the new functionality to use the
> "whitespace" name, which makes some sense, but it seems seems to have
> been done rather clumsily in some cases.  E.g. the new
> "whitespace-buffer" command seems completely different than the old
> "whitespace-buffer" command, and really there seems no good reason for
> it.  [It's more or less a mode, but isn't called "...-mode", doesn't
> follow emacs mode conventions well, e.g., it doesn't togglex, and
> there's _also_ "whitespace-mode" which offers different, but related,
> functionality...]
>
> -miles
>
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