Subject: Re: bug#24158: Problem in set-face-attribute for whitespace mode in terminal

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:21:16 +0300

> From: Kip Coul <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 11:41:20 +0200
> 
> This one does not work (the background is grey):
> (global-whitespace-mode t)
> (set-face-attribute 'whitespace-space nil :background nil :foreground "red")
> 
> However, it should be the same, right?
> 
> Interestingly, it works with eval-region though.

If it does work with eval-region, then how to reproduce the situation
where it doesn't work?

Thanks.