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

From: Leo Liu <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:36:01 +0800

On 2013-12-16 21:07 +0800, Felix S. Klock II wrote:
> 1. Start `emacs -Q'
>
> 2. Invoke `M-x rcirc`, go to a channel.
>
> 3. Observe: As messages arrive, user nicknames are colored by default.
>
> 4. Quit emacs, restart `emacs -Q'
>
> 5. In *scratch*, eval `(global-whitespace-mode 1)'
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> 6. Invoke `M-x rcirc`, go to a channel.
>
> 7. Observe that when messages come in, user nicknames are not colored.

The colours in rcirc buffers aren't set by font-locking. white-space
mode re-font-lock the buffer and as such colours are removed. So white
space mode is likely to cause problems in other places.

Leo