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Re: Emacs 20 Antinews - unclear entry
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Marco Baringer |
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Re: Emacs 20 Antinews - unclear entry |
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26 Jun 2002 08:28:09 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.30 |
Paul Stoeber <paul.stoeber@stud.tu-ilmenau.de> writes:
> One entry of Emacs 20 Antinews (distributed with Emacs 21):
>
> - The variable `show-trailing-whitespace' has no special
> meaning, so trailing whitespace on a line is now always
> displayed correctly: as empty space. To see if a line ends
> with spaces or tabs, type `C-e' on that line. Likewise,
> empty lines at the end of the buffer are not marked in any
> way; use `M->' to see where the end of the buffer is.
>
> I don't grasp the sentence with "`M->'". When I go to
> `*scratch*', set `show-trailing-whitespace' to `t', and
> add some empty lines at the bottom of the buffer, I still
> have to type `M->' too see the end of buffer. Perhaps my
> terminal can't show the face used to highlight the trailing
> empty lines. The docstring of `show-trailing-whitespace'
> mentions only one face, `trailing-whitespace', which my
> terminal _does_ display. What am I missing?
i think it refers to the gray bar on the far left of a frame. there
are small white square on the left starting at the end of the buffer
text.
--
-Marco
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