Questions tagged [whitespace-mode]
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Prevent whitespace-mode from overzealously highlighting blank lines at end
When using Whitespace Mode with the empty style enabled, the blank lines at the end of a file aren't highlighted if I'm on the very last line. However, I also don't want them to be highlighted if I'm on the line before last, since it visually…
lily
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Whitespace mode write dots for space chars
I'm using org-indent-mode. As far as I understand, the whitespace on the left is an overlay.
When you use this mode in conjunction with whitespace-mode, then there appears whitespace indications (dots) in the org-mode overlay on the left.
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whitespace-cleanup stopped working
I'm not sure what I did, but I'm trying to use M-x whitespace-cleanup in a python file and nothing happens. How do I debug this?
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disable whitespace mode on new buffers
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…
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Changing style for global-whitespace-mode not taking effect
Have written this function to change the style for global-whitespace-mode. I describe the problem as follows. Suppose one calls (space-glow "tab-trail") followed by (space-glow "allvis"). But trying to do (space-glow "tab-trail") again, the style…
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Disable whitespace-mode for single mode
I'm using global-whitespace-mode with a particular whitespace-style as a default for all modes. How can I disable whitespace-mode completely for a single mode, eg. incoming email?
I tried the following, but I still get all the default whitespace…
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What kinds of whitespace are visualized in Whitespace mode?
According to the Emacs manual (section 14.16 Useless Whitespace):
The kinds of whitespace visualized [in whitespace mode -- Evan] are determined by the list variable whitespace-style.
However, when I execute C-h v whitespace-style RET, no match is…
Evan Aad
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How to visualize trailing blanks and any tab characters (even non trailing)
I would like to visualize tabs. Here, I almost succeeded:
(setq whitespace-style '(face trailing tabs lines-tail indentation))
face is needed for other things to work;
trailing visualizes trailing blanks just perfectly;
tabs doesn't…
Mark Karpov
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How to set the column number from which on the text is marked as exceeding line length limit?
The context for my question: Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon, emacs version 28.1.2 compiled from source by myself.
See the image to know what I am speaking about:
being apparently not alone with such kind of question, as there is another not yet answered…
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Custom whitespace-line-column for specific modes in whitespace-mode
I want to force whitespace-mode highlight line after 99 character in rust-mode (cuz this length recommended by guidelines). For other modes i want to leave this variable with default value(80). How can i do this?
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