Subject: bug#16167: 24.3; rcirc coloring incompatible with global-whitespace-mode

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:33:46 -0500

>> Shouldn't rcirc use font-lock-face, then?
> Not sure.  For example, if you turn on whitespace mode in eshell buffer
> it also removes the colour there.  Thus my conclusion g-w-m can cause
> problems in other places.

Another way to look at it is that eshell might also need to use
font-lock-face.

        Stefan