From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 15:09:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fonpudFm0qeU4@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2145.1529261474.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Sunday, 17 Jun 2018 2:51 PM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
>> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:38:01 -0400
>>
>> What I have had in my .emacs file for years is the following:
>>
>> (global-whitespace-mode 1)
>> (setq-default whitespace-style '(face lines-tail tabs trailing))
>>
>> Examining the value of whitespace-mode shows nil, however.
>
> global-whitespace-mode (the function) sets global-whitespace-mode (the
> variable), not whitespace-mode.
So, using the function global-whitespace-mode is *not* the way to
enable whitespace mode? I find that confusing; where would use one vs
the other?
>> Adding (whitespace-mode 1) to my .emacs file apparently has no effect;
>> the value of whitespace-mode is still nil.
>
> In what buffer?
In any buffer.
>> Now if I interactively run the command "whitespace-mode", the value of
>> the variable whitespace-mode turns to t, but the display of u+2007
>> remains unchanged.
>
> How did you change the mappings for this character to be part of the
> display mappings?
As I stated elsewhere, by manually editing my customization file.
(And I can see the change via the regular Customization interface
under Whitespace Display Mappings - the added character is displayed
like a space, but I can run describe-char on it and see the 2007.)
--
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-17 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-16 20:15 Making a non-ASCII space character visible Will Parsons
2018-06-16 21:37 ` Will Parsons
2018-06-17 4:31 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-17 5:07 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-06-17 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-17 6:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-06-17 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-17 6:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.2115.1529217694.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-19 0:45 ` Will Parsons
2018-06-19 1:01 ` Noam Postavsky
[not found] ` <mailman.2220.1529370113.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-19 1:26 ` Will Parsons
[not found] ` <mailman.2110.1529214934.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-17 18:54 ` Will Parsons
2018-06-17 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2111.1529215267.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-17 18:38 ` Will Parsons
2018-06-17 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2145.1529261474.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-17 19:09 ` Will Parsons [this message]
2018-06-17 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2147.1529263896.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-17 20:28 ` Will Parsons
2018-06-18 1:40 ` Nick Helm
[not found] ` <mailman.2154.1529286048.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-19 0:12 ` Will Parsons
2018-06-19 2:30 ` Nick Helm
[not found] ` <mailman.2227.1529375463.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-20 21:05 ` Will Parsons
[not found] ` <mailman.2107.1529212061.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-17 18:45 ` Will Parsons
[not found] <<fol9fvF7uauU1@mid.individual.net>
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2018-06-17 0:20 ` Drew Adams
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