Today, we’re taking a look at Emacs’s whitespace-mode and discussing how we can simplify its configuration to make it more applicable for most use cases.
Today, we’re taking a look at Emacs’s whitespace-mode and discussing how we can simplify its configuration to make it more applicable for most use cases.
For trailing whitespace, isn’t simply the variable
show-trailing-whitespaceenough?I’m discovering about
whitespace-modeand found this article which helped me to understand the package. Do you know if it allows to display TAB with a specific background colour?Emfy setup recommends three settings for trailing whitespace:
(setq-default show-trailing-whitespace t) (setq-default indicate-empty-lines t) (setq-default indicate-buffer-boundaries 'left)Screenshots showing the results: https://github.com/susam/emfy#show-stray-whitespace