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.
I’ve never understood why so many people when discussing configuration and appearance changes don’t include pictures of the results.
I find whitespace-mode invaluable in finding trailing whitespace, use of literal tabs and the like I always have it on when looking at code. Good tips in the article but I wish it had screen shots / showed examples.
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
