bug#50474: 28.0.50; whitespace-mode in non-editable Gnus buffers

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:

> That's what I assumed, but is it documented?

Apparently not, so I've now added a paragraph to the Gnus manual about this.

> (I briefly looked but
> didn't see anything relevant.)  And although it's probably not too
> common to enable whitespace-mode in a non-editable Gnus buffer, it is a
> gotcha if you happen to do so.  It would be user-friendly to prevent
> that, but maybe the effort isn't worth it.

Yeah, I don't think it's worth it -- your report about this is the first
time I can recall somebody trying this in...  er...  has it been 30
years now?  :-)

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