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25.0.91; whitespace.el documentation looks incorrect

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: David Caldwell <david <at> porkrind.org>
Cc: 22874 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22874: 25.0.91; whitespace.el documentation looks incorrect
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:34:43 +0200

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David Caldwell <david <at> porkrind.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> M-x describe-variable RET whitespace-style RET
>
> says:
>
> [snip]
>
>    indentation::tab     8 or more SPACEs at beginning of line are
>                         visualized via faces.
>                         It has effect only if ‘face’ (see above)
>                         is present in ‘whitespace-style’.
>
>    indentation::space   TABs at beginning of line are visualized via
>                         faces.
>                         It has effect only if ‘face’ (see above)
>                         is present in ‘whitespace-style’.

I tried to reproduce this bug with the following file:

[white.bin (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

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But with either

(setq whitespace-style '(face indentation::tab))
(setq whitespace-style '(face indentation::space))

and then `M-x whitespace-mode'

just the lines with leading spaces were fontified.

So this either doesn't seem to work at all, or I'm just doing it wrong.

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