Subject: Re: bug#17543: 24.3.91; highlight-regexp in find-file-hook doesn't work as expected

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 12:00:21 -0400

Jan Synacek wrote:

> Just wondering. Is my original problem supposed to work like it does now?

I think it's something to do with \n having whitespace syntax in some
modes, and "end of comment" in others, and whatever highlight- does.
Since Emacs has a standard way to highlight trailing whitespace, I have
not looked in detail.