Re: Highlight tabulated and trailing whitespace

[steve-humphreys]

> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2020 at 10:20 AM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Highlight tabulated and trailing whitespace
>
> steve-humphreys wrote:
>
> > I would like to highlight tabulated and trailing whitespace, using the 
> > following
> > code on a dark background.  The highlighting is not working.  I might also 
> > be
> > changing tabs with spaced but do not what command I had used.
> >
> > (defun whitesp-highlight ()
> >   "Highlights whitespace."
> >
> >   (require 'whitespace)
> >   (setq-local show-trailing-whitespace t)
> >
> >   (whitespace-mode)
> >   (setq whitespace-style '(face tabs))
> >   (modify-face whitespace-tab nil "#000000")
> >
> >   ;; Highlights tabulator regions
> >   (setq whitespace-style '(tabs tab-mark))
> >   (global-whitespace-mode 1) )
>
> (setq show-trailing-whitespace t)
>

Is "show-trailing-whitespace" buffer local?

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