Re: whitespace-mode deactivated at end of line

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:22:36 +0000
> From:  goncholden via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> I am visualising withspace with (global-whitespace-mode)
> 
> Trailing spaces are coloured in red, but when I put the cursor at the end of 
> the line, the red whitespace
> background is being modified to black for a black theme.

The red background that highlights trailing whitespace disappears when
the cursor is at the end of such a line, and that's feature: if Emacs
didn't behave like that, each time you type a space at the end of a
line you'd get it highlighted in red, which is an annoyance when you
type.