Re: Highlight tabulated and trailing whitespace

[steve-humphreys]

I have tried to show tab marks, but the following commands are confusing me.  
One can
use a backgrouund colour and introduce a tab mark.  But I have no idea how to 
achieve
them.

  (setq whitespace-style '(face tabs))
  (setq whitespace-style '(tabs tab-mark))



> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2020 at 10:42 AM
> From: steve-humphreys@gmx.com
> To: moasenwood@zoho.eu
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Highlight tabulated and trailing whitespace
>
> What can I do to show tabs like I am doing with show-trailing-whitespace?
>
> > 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)
> >
> >
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