From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 24.3 status update Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:38:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877glw5dew.fsf@fimbulvetr.bsc.es> <20130225211935.GA15821@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361828334 6956 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2013 21:38:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:38:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 25 22:39:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UA5lT-000829-HD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:39:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47809 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA5l8-0008A5-MC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:38:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56095) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA5kr-0007Nf-WA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA5kq-0004HS-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:38:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA5kq-0004HN-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:38:36 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA5ko-0006ff-RI; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:38:34 -0500 X-Spook: FSF SHA Bellcore virus terrorism IDEA NATO keyhole X-Ran: H=O("o-T!YMwHJmds!A#9Z[C?BqBoHhs0"{ttZ_.yij)w9]?"?D3cjkBIS9o-s7WS7*182 X-Hue: blue X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <20130225211935.GA15821@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:19:35 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157348 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> emacs -q --eval '(global-whitespace-mode t)' > > I can't reproduce this in the latest emacs-24 branch. It'll be more fall out from the trunk changes to define-globalized-minor-mode, so not surprising. >> I've also been unable to disable whitespace-mode for a very long time >> (when disable, it still shows its highlight colors), but I've been >> too lazy to fill-in a bug report. > > I can confirm this bug (in the latest emacs-24 branch). To reproduce it, > start emacs as the first invocation above. Non-lazy people have already been filing bugs about this. Eg 11333, 11353. I doubt these problems are new, so they don't need investigating right this minute. > This show there's non-standard semantics for > \(global-\)?-whitespace-mode. The whole thing is over-engineered IMO. Eg 12496.