Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:38:01 -0400
> 
> What I have had in my .emacs file for years is the following:
> 
>   (global-whitespace-mode 1)
>   (setq-default whitespace-style '(face lines-tail tabs trailing))
> 
> Examining the value of whitespace-mode shows nil, however.

global-whitespace-mode (the function) sets global-whitespace-mode (the
variable), not whitespace-mode.

> Adding (whitespace-mode 1) to my .emacs file apparently has no effect;
> the value of whitespace-mode is still nil.

In what buffer?

> Now if I interactively run the command "whitespace-mode", the value of
> the variable whitespace-mode turns to t, but the display of u+2007
> remains unchanged.

How did you change the mappings for this character to be part of the
display mappings?