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24.0.50; whitespace-style lines-tail no longer works |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:07:50 +0200 |
emacs -Q
In *scratch* buffer eval this:
(setq whitespace-style '(lines-tail))
(whitespace-mode)
Now type a line of text with mode than 80 characteres.
Until recently, the characters after the 80th column were highlighted
with a prominent background color, which is the documented behavior.
In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
of 2010-09-16 on qcore
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000
configured using `configure '--without-toolkit-scroll-bars'
'--with-x-toolkit=lucid''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default enable-multibyte-characters: t
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Re: bug#7097: 24.0.50; whitespace-style lines-tail no longer works |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:36:41 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Vinicius Jose Latorre <address@hidden> writes:
> Since version 13.1 it is needed to add 'face symbol into
> whitespace-style' to enable blank face visualization.
>
> So, the proper setting should be:
>
> (setq whitespace-style '(face lines-tail))
>
> From `whitespace-style' docstring:
>
> One reason for not visualize spaces via faces (if `face' is not
> included in `whitespace-style') is to use exclusively for
> cleanning up a buffer. See `whitespace-cleanup' and
> `whitespace-cleanup-region' for documentation.
[snip]
Thanks for the update, Vinicius. Bug closed.
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