Questions tagged [whitespace-mode]
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How to stop Emacs from highlighting Linux Tab characters?
So I opened a c++ script made in Xubuntu and every tab character was highlighted with grey.
That doesn't happen when I open scripts made on Windows. How do I stop Emacs from highlighting them, it's ...
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whitespace-mode does not display hidden characters in a patch file
I have a patch file on which if I do cat -A , I get :
if (zif->rtadv.AdvIntervalOption)$
{$
struct nd_opt_adv_interval *ndopt_adv = $
^I(struct nd_opt_adv_interval *)(buf + len);$
But ...
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How do I turn off whitespace-mode within flycheck-mode and lsp-mode (in doom emacs)?
I've enabled whitespace-mode and I'm correctly able to see my spaces, tabs, and newlines. But the spaces also show up when I receive messages from emacs (ie when I get error messages and code action ...
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Changing global-whitespace-mode options locally to a particular buffer
I want to customize the behavior of global-whitespace-mode on a per-major-mode basis, and also define some interactive commands that change what's being highlighted on a per-buffer basis. global-...
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whitespace-style “face” activates highlighting of quoted string in fundamental mode
After putting face to whitespace-style:
(setq whitespace-style '(trailing tabs empty face))
(global-whitespace-mode 1)
string enclosed in a double quote started to be highlighted by font-lock-string-...
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Whitespace-mode: highlight hidden indentation of empty lines
I use whitespace-mode, intend with tabs (colored pale yellow, which is what I want) and I am wondering about the situation where there is an empty line inside an indented block (see image below).
I ...
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How to highlight whitespace only in the active region?
I have global-whitespace-mode enabled which is configured to display TAB and SPC characters with (setq whitespace-style '(space-mark tab-mark))
How can I highlight whitespace characters only on ...
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Disable white-space mode emacs-26.3
I tried to highlight lines that exceed 80 columns using whitespace-mode. Eventually didn't like that idea and removed that from my init.el. However, the whitespaces are shown as . and line ends are $ ...
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How to display only leading spaces in whitespace mode
I've been having trouble getting whitespace to visualize properly. Specifically for 'spaces' I'd like to only display leading spaces, but turning on space white space visualization includes all spaces,...
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whitespace-line-column highlight basing on the column number instead of char count
config
(require 'whitespace)
(setq whitespace-line-column 80) ;; limit line length
(setq whitespace-style '(face tabs empty trailing lines-tail))
For first line, whitespace-mode correctly highlights ...
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Is it possible to use whitespace-mode without specyfing a background (or foreground) color?
I like having non-breaking spaces and a few other characters represented in my buffer as visible characters. The problem I have is that whitespace-mode seems determined to set the background color. In ...
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whitespace-cleanup stopped working
I'm not sure what I did, but I'm trying to use M-x whitespace-cleanup in a python file and nothing happens. How do I debug this?
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Disable whitespace-mode for single mode [duplicate]
I'm using global-whitespace-mode with a particular whitespace-style as a default for all modes. How can I disable whitespace-mode completely for a single mode, eg. incoming email?
I tried the ...
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Highlight useless whitespace at end of file
How do I make Emacs highlight whitespace at EOF, eg. any whitespace after >?\n for PHP?
I think the general rule would be:
After the last non-whitespace character, accept one newline, then ...
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magit-status does not open, when using (global-whitespace-mode 1)
This problem started happening today when I switched to my desktop computer after a couple months of using my laptop. I updated emacs to 25.3.1, updated all my packages, and downloaded my latest ....
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Space and line-end indicators stay after switching off whitespace-mode
When I switch on whitespace-mode I get all the indicators and color for showing superfluous whitespace. So far so good.
But when I switch off whitespace-mode the space indicator . and the line-end ...
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How to display Unicode bidi markers only in Whitespace mode?
There's a way of displaying Unicode bidirectionality markers. The problem is: it makes them visible all the time. Is it possible to show them only in whitespace mode?
PS I'm not chained to the method ...
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What kinds of whitespace are visualized in Whitespace mode?
According to the Emacs manual (section 14.16 Useless Whitespace):
The kinds of whitespace visualized [in whitespace mode -- Evan] are determined by the list variable whitespace-style.
However, ...
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Custom whitespace-line-column for specific modes in whitespace-mode
I want to force whitespace-mode highlight line after 99 character in rust-mode (cuz this length recommended by guidelines). For other modes i want to leave this variable with default value(80). How ...
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How to toggle whitespace mode in evil insert state?
I'd like to disable whitespace-mode while in evil insert state. The following hooks work, but require refreshing all font colors with (font-lock-fontify-buffer), and even then- sometimes it fails to ...
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How can I switch whitespace-mode enabled/disabled by key?
(defun switch-whitespace-mode ()
(interactive)
(whitespace-mode)
)
(global-set-key (kbd "<f6>") 'switch-whitespace-mode)
Through the above configuration，I failed.
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Whitespace highlighting
I've tried whitespace-mode, but I can't configure it the way I want. There are others, but some of them are obsolete and I don't want to try them all.
I always indent via tabs and can't stand ...
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How to set whitespace-line-colum per mode?
I'm trying to have whitespace-line-column set to 80 in prog-mode and 100 in web-mode, etc. However when using hooks seems to get ignored, as is always set to 80.
(require 'whitespace)
(setq ...
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distinguish inner consecutive spaces
I'm aware of and use whitespace-mode to great effect. I don't show a glyph/character for spaces because I think it's too noisy and unnecessary. I do highlight trailing spaces red which is great.
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disable whitespace mode on new buffers
After doing an some emacs packages updates, every time a new file is opened the buffer has whitespace mode turned on. I see red on all the whitespace at the start of lines. I've tried disabling ...
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How to visualize trailing blanks and any tab characters (even non trailing)
I would like to visualize tabs. Here, I almost succeeded:
(setq whitespace-style '(face trailing tabs lines-tail indentation))
face is needed for other things to work;
trailing visualizes trailing ...
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mix spaces and tabs in python mode
Is it possible with whitespace-mode (or another mode) to only show mix spaces an tabs (in python mode) ?
Only highlight if:
there is space before tab or tab before space
there is space and indent-...
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Whitespace mode write dots for space chars
I'm using org-indent-mode. As far as I understand, the whitespace on the left is an overlay.
When you use this mode in conjunction with whitespace-mode, then there appears whitespace indications (...
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Whitespace-mode characters: customise mapping of printable character representations
The whitespace-mode has a default mapping from whitespace characters to printable characters:
U+0020 → U+00B7 “·”
U+0009 → U+00BB “»”
U+000A → U+0024 “$”
etc.
How can I change which printable ...
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Emacs whitespace mode doesn't show ^M characters
Somebody in my team has checked in a file with MS-DOS line endings into the git repo. with vi's binary mode, vi -b hello.py, i can see lines ending with ctrl character - ^M.
In emacs, whitespace-...
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whitespace-mode doesn't show the space characters
I need to see the space characters but I can't set it for the life of me.
I went to customize the Whitespace Display Mapping and this is what I found. Notice that the mapping for the space is set to ...
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Enable whitespace-mode with Prelude in C++-mode
With a vanilla install of Prelude and with C++-mode as my major mode, M-x whitespace-mode no longer shows whitespace characters. I get a message indicating that I am toggling whitespace-mode on and ...
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whitespace-mode ignores whitespace-line-column
In ~/.emacs I've globally enabled whitespace-mode:
(require 'whitespace)
(setq whitespace-style '(face empty tabs lines-tail trailing))
(global-whitespace-mode t)
Example buffer content:
-*- fill-...
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Only enable whitespace mode in certain buffers
I would like to have whitespace mode turned on for all buffer except for org-mode ones. It is easy to do this when emacs starts up, but since I use a persistant copy of emacs with emacs daemon mode I ...
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Can I modify whitespace mode to distinguish hard and soft newlines?
Currently, whitespace.el shows me newline characters by changing the display table to show a $ at the end of lines.
I don't actually find this useful, so I disable it while I enjoy the many other ...
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Only doing whitespace-cleanup on the lines touched
For most projects I work on I use a before-save-hook to run whitespace-cleanup. This is fine when everybody on the team cleanups up their spaces but sometimes I am involved in already running ...
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Prevent whitespace-mode from overzealously highlighting blank lines at end
When using Whitespace Mode with the empty style enabled, the blank lines at the end of a file aren't highlighted if I'm on the very last line. However, I also don't want them to be highlighted if I'm ...
