Re: Highlight tabulated and trailing whitespace

[steve-humphreys]

Have tried the following two lines to no effect

(require 'whitespace)
(whitespace-mode)

But then if I use "H-k" to toggle, the command works.  What is happening???

(global-set-key (kbd "H-k") 'whitespace-mode)




> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2020 at 1:11 PM
> 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 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))
>
> Then just set the `whitespace-tab' face, to some face other
> than what the default face has,
>
> (insert "\t <-- this is a tab")
>
> and enable the mode.
>
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