Re: How about a non-nil and non-t value of show-trailing-whitespa ce?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Marshall, Simon" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:36:27 +0100
> > 
> > Here's my solution to this issue (from my .emacs):
> > 
> > ;;; Turn on trailing whitespace highlighting in modes where
> > ;;; it makes sense.
> > (let* ((twh-modes '("texinfo-mode" "makefile-mode" "c-mode-common"
> >                     "emacs-lisp-mode" "outline-mode" "sh-mode"
> >                     "shell-script-mode"))
> >        (elt (car twh-modes)))
> >   (while elt
> >     (add-hook (intern (concat elt "-hook"))
> >               (function (lambda ()
> >                           (setq show-trailing-whitespace t))))
> >     (setq twh-modes (cdr twh-modes)
> >           elt (car twh-modes))))
> 
> We know how to do this

I'm sure you do; I merely meant to demonstrate that someone might want
to turn the feature only in some modes.

> I admit that my suggestion is also arbitrary (why not restrict it to
> writable file-visiting buffers, rather than writable buffers?) but it's
> worth thinking about.

I agree that we should think and talk about adding more features to
allow users to turn trailing whitespace selectively in an easy way.