GNU bug report logs - #55881
Request: Use of face for whitespace-style

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From: goncholden <goncholden <at> protonmail.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Request: Use of face for whitespace-style
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 04:12:47 +0000

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Because tab-mark, tabs, trailing, etc ... work via faces, could the requirement for faces declaration be removed from whitespace-style?

In summary, from

(setq whitespace-style '(face tab-mark tabs trailing))

to

(setq whitespace-style '(tab-mark tabs trailing))

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: goncholden <goncholden <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 55881 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55881: Request: Use of face for whitespace-style
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 11:51:27 +0200

goncholden <goncholden <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> Because tab-mark, tabs, trailing, etc ... work via faces, could the requirement for
> faces declaration be removed from  whitespace-style?
>
> In summary, from 
>
> (setq whitespace-style '(face tab-mark tabs trailing))
>
> to
>
> (setq whitespace-style '(tab-mark tabs trailing))

No.  As the doc string says:

---
One reason to not use faces to visualize spaces (i.e., not
include `face' in `whitespace-style') is to use `whitespace-mode'
only for cleaning up a buffer.  See `whitespace-cleanup' and
`whitespace-cleanup-region'.
---

Closing.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #15 received at 55881 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: goncholden <goncholden <at> protonmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 55881 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55881: Request: Use of face for whitespace-style
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:16:11 +0000

------- Original Message -------
On Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 9:51 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:


> goncholden goncholden <at> protonmail.com writes:
>
> > Because tab-mark, tabs, trailing, etc ... work via faces, could the requirement for
> > faces declaration be removed from whitespace-style?
> >
> > In summary, from
> >
> > (setq whitespace-style '(face tab-mark tabs trailing))
> >
> > to
> >
> > (setq whitespace-style '(tab-mark tabs trailing))
>
>
> No. As the doc string says:
>
> ---
> One reason to not use faces to visualize spaces (i.e., not
> include `face' in` whitespace-style') is to use `whitespace-mode' only for cleaning up a buffer. See` whitespace-cleanup' and
> `whitespace-cleanup-region'.
> ---

Could whitespace-cleanup and whitespace-cleanup-region decide by themselves what they have to do?

> Closing.
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
> bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
>

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