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28.0.50; whitespace-mode does not remember previous display table

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From: Sebastian Miele <sebastian.miele <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; whitespace-mode does not remember previous display table
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 11:54:36 +0200

In an emacs -Q set ‘org-ellispis’ to, e.g., "---".  Create a buffer in
Org mode that contains a headline with content below.  Have that
headline folded.  Then turn ‘whitespace-mode’ on and off again.  Turning
‘whitespace-mode’ off changes the ellipsis character to the standard
"...".

That happens, because the previous ‘buffer-display-table’ does not get
restored.  However, in principle ‘whitespace-mode’ does have provisions
to restore the previous ‘buffer-display-table’.  The problem probably is
in ‘whitespace-display-char-on’.  It contains the following code:

  (unless (or whitespace-mode global-whitespace-mode)
    (setq whitespace-display-table
    (copy-sequence buffer-display-table)))

That has no effect (‘whitespace-display-table’ remains nil), because
somehow the variable ‘whitespace-mode’ already is non-nil when
‘whitespace-display-char-on’ gets called.


In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.29, cairo version 1.17.4)
 of 2021-05-22 built on huette
Repository revision: a3de48687eb28121f3dbfc20be19bd06c4cd6e98
Repository branch: HEAD
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12011000
System Description: Arch Linux

Configured using:
 'configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-mailutils --with-cairo'

Configured features:
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JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY
PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS X11 XDBE
XIM XPM GTK3 ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Org

Minor modes in effect:
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  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
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  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
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  auto-composition-mode: t
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Load-path shadows:
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Message #8 received at 48583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Sebastian Miele <sebastian.miele <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 48583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48583: 28.0.50; whitespace-mode does not remember previous
 display table
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:07:31 +0200

Sebastian Miele <sebastian.miele <at> gmail.com> writes:

> That has no effect (‘whitespace-display-table’ remains nil), because
> somehow the variable ‘whitespace-mode’ already is non-nil when
> ‘whitespace-display-char-on’ gets called.

Yup.  I've now fixed this in Emacs 29.

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