Re: [Libvir] removing trailing blanks (and keeping them away)

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:42:01PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > I looked into it, and there is a show-trailing-whitespace variable in > emacs, so one might consider modifying our "standard" trailer to be: > > /* > * Local variables: > * indent-tabs-mode: nil > * c-indent-level: 4 > * c-basic-offset: 4 > * tab-width: 4 > * show-trailing-whitespace: t <--- NB > * End: > */ > > HOWEVER this doesn't work, or at least not automatically. Emacs > complains: "The local variables list in foo.c contains values that may > not be safe" and marks show-trailing-whitespace as one such variable. > Although one can mark it as safe in your local preferences, every emacs > user would have to do this. > > I've no idea why show-trailing-whitespace should be unsafe. Hmm, I've got the following in my $HOME/.emacsrc file (require 'show-wspace) (add-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook 'highlight-trailing-whitespace) Which does the trick for me