Subject: bug#7097: closed (Re: bug#7097: 24.0.50; whitespace-style lines-tail no longer works)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:35:02 +0000

Your bug report

#7097: 24.0.50; whitespace-style lines-tail no longer works

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#7097: 24.0.50; whitespace-style lines-tail no longer works
From: Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]>
To: Vinicius Jose Latorre <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:36:41 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Vinicius Jose Latorre <[email-masked]> writes:

> Since version 13.1 it is needed to add 'face symbol into
> whitespace-style' to enable blank face visualization.
>
> So, the proper setting should be:
>
> (setq whitespace-style '(face lines-tail))
>
> From `whitespace-style' docstring:
>
>     One reason for not visualize spaces via faces (if `face' is not
>     included in `whitespace-style') is to use exclusively for
>     cleanning up a buffer.  See `whitespace-cleanup' and
>     `whitespace-cleanup-region' for documentation.

[snip]

Thanks for the update, Vinicius. Bug closed.

Subject: 24.0.50; whitespace-style lines-tail no longer works
From: [email-masked] (Óscar Fuentes)
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Vinicius Jose Latorre <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:07:50 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

emacs -Q

In *scratch* buffer eval this:
(setq whitespace-style '(lines-tail))
(whitespace-mode)

Now type a line of text with mode than 80 characteres.

Until recently, the characters after the 80th column were highlighted
with a prominent background color, which is the documented behavior.

In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2010-09-16 on qcore
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000
configured using `configure  '--without-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--with-x-toolkit=lucid''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t