Subject: bug#8589: 23.3.50; Cannot modify whitespace-mode usefully per-file without switching off global-whitespace-mode

From: Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:39:51 +0100

On 29 April 2011 21:21, Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]> wrote:
> I use global-whitespace-mode, but sometimes it’s not convenient. It
> would be nice to switch it off e.g. in directory-local or file-local
> variables, but setting whitespace-mode: nil there doesn’t work as
> global-whitespace-mode is still active.

Sorry, it looks like I made a mistake here, as switching off
whitespace-mode in an individual buffer without switching off
global-whitespace-mode does indeed seem to work.

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