From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replacement for whitespace-tab Date: 24 Oct 2017 21:31:03 GMT Message-ID: References: Reply-To: wbparsons@cshore.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508880956 30232 195.159.176.226 (24 Oct 2017 21:35:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:35:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (CYGWIN_NT-6.1) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 24 23:35:50 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e76rL-0005mq-P5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2017 23:35:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45613 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e76rP-0008AR-Kc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:35:43 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Trace: individual.net IbXXFDrFYgFpj8qARBlp0wavbwGRo1dPakgoEQve/Hx1Z4J4C/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:4xXD49/KH/1LFyYSivHXuegm7jI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:220530 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114638 Archived-At: Stephen Berman wrote: > On 24 Oct 2017 00:55:23 GMT Will Parsons wrote: > >> Emanuel Berg wrote: >>> Will Parsons wrote: >>> >>>> I noticed that in one of my Emacs >>>> configurations I had customized the value of >>>> whitespace-tab to better distinguish visually >>>> tabs from spaces. When I did a C-h v on the >>>> variable (under Emacs 25.2) I got the message: >>>> >>>> This variable is obsolete since 24.4; use the >>>> face instead. >>> >>> Use the face! :) ??? >> >> Um, how? That is the question. > > By typing `M-x customize-face'. The file whitespace.el defines both a > variable and a face named `whitespace-tab', and the former is now > obsolete. Well that seems easy enough, but the result is confusing. First, I hand-edited my custom.el to delete the old customization. I then did as you say using customize-face, and saved the customization. Comparing the new custom.el with the original, I found they were identical (!), so I guess I never had a problem in the first place - I was just confused by the message into *thinking* I had. Anyway, thanks for clearing things up. -- Will