Re: Bug #11333, whitespace mode does nothing. Is there a workaround?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com> writes:

> I am affected by bug #11333.
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11333
>
> Whitespace mode claims to be active but it does nothing.  In every buffer I
> have to turn it off then back on to make it work.
>
> This is Ubuntu 13.04.  "emacs --version" outputs "24.2.1".
> "apt-cache show emacs24" contains "Version: 24.2+1-2ubuntu2".
>
> Is there an easy work-around?

You could either switch to emacs-snapshot.  Or you can try to download
the new version of whitespace.el and explicitly load this version from
your .emacs.

Michael.