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Re: whitespace


From: Tomer
Subject: Re: whitespace
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:55:32 -0800 (PST)
User-agent: G2/1.0

On Jan 26, 6:44 pm, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
> Tomer (2009-01-26 08:28 -0800) wrote:
>
> > I followed your steps, but still to no avail.
> > After I type "M-x whitespace-mode", I get the following error:
> > Loading /home/tomer/elisp/whitespace.el (source)...
> > load-with-code-conversion: Symbol's value as variable is void: <!
> > DOCTYPE
>
> Your whitespace.el contains some html code. That's where the "<!DOCTYPE"
> came from. You need to download the lisp-only file, not the html page.
> It's probably not your fault, at least I remember having similar
> problems with Emacswiki a couple of times.
>
> Anyway, load the whitespace.el from page
>
>    http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/whitespace.el
>
> and use the "Download" link with "Save Link As..." in your browser. That
> should work.

Thanks a lot - I should have checked the file's content to starts
with...
The "Save Link As..." trick didn't work though, so I just copy and
pasted the code to a new file.

Cheers!


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