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I'm trying to use the flag show-trailing-white-space and it usually shows me what I want. I.e., I never want dangling white space at the end of a line containing text. However, between lines of text, I really don't care that there is white space. In fact, the editor enforces white space which is for indentation purposes.

In the image shown here, the red mark between :empty-set and :else is really annoying, but the red marks at the end of the other three lines is helpful.

Is there a way to tell show-trailing-white-space either to ignore any whitespace starting at the beginning of a line, or perhaps ignore indentation white space, or perhaps ignore whitespace before the first non-white-space-character?

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Looks like it's displaying trailing whitespaces and some kind of indenting whitespaces. Look at whitespace-toggle-options documentation and this manual page.

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  • sorry, but I don't understand your comment. The page you mention is indeed the documentation I was reading relevant to show-trailing-white-space. Are you suggesting there is an option to ignore blank lines. I see an option to ignore blank lines only at the beginning or end of file. Perhaps you see something in the docs that I don't see?
    – Jim Newton
    Apr 5, 2020 at 9:41
  • I'm guessing your config is taking account of indenting whitespaces, either spaces or tabs and/or newlines, not just blank lines. Can't tell more from a screen capture.
    – Muihlinn
    Apr 5, 2020 at 10:13
  • if whitespace-cleanup takes care of those "blank" lines, it's what I was pointing up.
    – Muihlinn
    Apr 5, 2020 at 10:24
  • No, in my screen capture, there is a line which contains no text, but is highlighted anyway. In my opinion this is not problematic trailing white space and should be ignored by show-tailing-white-space sorry if that wasn't clear from my OP. I'd like to tell show-trailing-white-space to ignore lines which contain only white space.
    – Jim Newton
    Apr 5, 2020 at 12:04
  • OK, I do understand now that you're not using whitespace-mode. I guess you can customize whitespace-trailing-regexp to your needs, but probably it'll have unwanted side effects. I'd rather put delete-trailing-whitespace in your before-save-hook to delete unneeded whitespaces and fix visualization at once.
    – Muihlinn
    Apr 5, 2020 at 15:56

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