"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
(require 'show-wspace) (add-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook 'highlight-trailing-whitespace)
Which does the trick for me
I've found it useful to highlight space-before-TAB and blank-lines-at-EOB, too. (when window-system ;;; Create faces for highlighting white space. (copy-face 'underline 'ws-space-face) (set-face-foreground 'ws-space-face "red") (copy-face 'underline 'ws-unbreakable-space-face) (set-face-foreground 'ws-unbreakable-space-face "grey") ;;; Things to highlight in nearly every mode. (defvar always-font-lock-keywords '(("\\<\\(FIXME\\|XXX\\)[-!:]?\\>" 1 font-lock-warning-face t) ("\240" 0 'ws-unbreakable-space-face t) ("[ \t]+$" 0 'ws-space-face t) ; trailing white space ("\\( +\\)\t" 1 'ws-space-face t) ; spaces before a TAB ("\n\\(\n+\\)\\'" 1 'ws-space-face t)) ; blank lines at end of buffer "expressions to highlight in every font-lock enabled mode.") ...