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Using whitespace mode (vernon-grant.com)
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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.

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[–] cons@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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