Just tried, it does not work. Here's a print screen of editing the .emacs
file:

1. this works:
[image: Inline image 1]

2. This does not work, at first load
[image: Inline image 2]

3. After eval region:
[image: Inline image 3]

Regards,
Kip


On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:15 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Kip Coul <kipcoul@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:01:43 +0200
> > Cc: 24158@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > Here's the .emacs file:
>
> Thanks.  But please try just these two lines:
>
>  (global-whitespace-mode t)
>  (set-face-attribute 'whitespace-space nil :background nil :foreground
> "red")
>
> and nothing else.  If this works for you in Emacs 24.4 that you have,
> then we can investigate which of the other customizations gets in the
> way.  If just those two lines don't work, I'd ask you to try a newer
> version of Emacs, maybe this was a problem that was since solved.
>