GNU bug report logs - #78201
Suggest show-trailing-whitespace customize option "unless special"

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Joel Reicher <joel.reicher <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 78201 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#78201: Suggest show-trailing-whitespace customize option "unless special"
Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 09:31:34 +0300

> From: Joel Reicher <joel.reicher <at> gmail.com>
> 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.

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