Subject: bug#78201: Suggest show-trailing-whitespace customize option "unless special"

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 09:31:34 +0300

> From: Joel Reicher <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 12:09:03 +1000
> 
> A global value of t for show-trailing-whitespace is often not 
> useful as some special modes insert trailing whitespace that can't 
> (by definition) be edited.

Those modes are quite rare.  So I suggest instead to submit patches to
those rare modes to customize the buffer-local value of
show-trailing-whitespace in buffers under those modes.