Re: visible-whitespace-mode

[Ehud Karni]

On 26 Nov 2001 15:37:14 +0900, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Anyone have any comments on this?  Is it an appropriate thing to add
> to emacs?

The visible-whitespace-mode is very nice (although it is overwhelming
the eye).

There is one problem (easily worked around) - if you untabify a region
when in visible-whitespace-mode it does not work well.

Area with tabs before untabify:
        column 9 (after 1 tab)
                coulmn 17 (2 tabs)
                        coulmn 25 (3 tabs)
xxxxxxxx        column 17 (after 1 tab)
xxxxxxxx                coulmn 25 (2 tabs)
xxxxxxxx                        coulmn 33 (3 tabs)

After untabify (in visible-whitespace-mode):
         column 9 (after 1 tab)               ==> column 10
         coulmn 17 (2 tabs)                   ==> column 10
                 coulmn 25 (3 tabs)           ==> column 18
xxxxxxxx         column 17 (after 1 tab)      ==> column 18
xxxxxxxx         coulmn 25 (2 tabs)           ==> column 18
xxxxxxxx                 coulmn 33 (3 tabs)   ==> column 26

Ehud.


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