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After doing an some emacs packages updates, every time a new file is opened the buffer has whitespace mode turned on. I see red on all the whitespace at the start of lines. I've tried disabling whitespace-mode, but can't change this behavior from happening on every new buffer.

Is there someway to make sure whitespace-mode is disabled on new buffers?

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    Turn off global-whitspace-mode? Try a word search for that function in your packages or user configuration and perhaps you'll find that it has been enabled. – lawlist Mar 06 '16 at 15:25
  • that has no impact on it. global-whitespace-mode off still opens new buffers with whitespace mode on. There must be something overriding this setting – Drew Mar 07 '16 at 17:24
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    Consider typing M-x describe-mode and update your question by listing all of the minor-modes that are active in the buffer just after opening it. If whitespace-mode is enabled, there two usual methods: (global-whitespace-mode 1) or (whitespace-mode 1). If you don't have either one of those somewhere in your setup, then I'm out of ideas. I suppose there could be a derived-mode like text-mode or prog-mode, which has something like (whitespace-mode 1) attached to a derived major-mode hook -- but that is certainly less common. – lawlist Mar 07 '16 at 20:42
  • In the mode-line, there is usually a capital WS for global-whitespace-mode and a little ws for buffer-local whitespace-mode. – lawlist Mar 07 '16 at 20:47
  • you're right, when first opening a file whitespace is enabled! I'm looking through my init to see if something is enabling it – Drew Mar 08 '16 at 22:03
  • New Drew: Your name is going to be extremely confusing on this particular site. – phils Apr 08 '16 at 01:03

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Prelude's own prelude-whitespace was causing the behavior. You can disable it using:

M-x customize-group RET prelude

Set Prelude Whitespace (prelude-whitespace) to off/nil (default is on).

According to the prelude docs you can also set this variable in your configuration:

(setq prelude-whitespace nil)
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  • If this resolved your problem, could you please accept your own answer so we can mark it as done, please? – Dan Apr 08 '16 at 00:56
  • Seems to still happen. Deleting the emacs cache file fixes it temporarily... – Drew Apr 09 '16 at 11:54
  • I'll just accept this, it's still happening but much less than before – Drew Apr 14 '16 at 19:50