Re: changing the display of formfeed characters

[Nick Helm]

Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:

> The same thing happens in vanilla emacs with the modes defined in 
> whitespace.el
>
> M-x global-whitespace-newline-mode
>
> works fine interactively (only highlights newlines), but if I write in 
> ~/.emacs
>
> (global-whitespace-newline-mode 1)
>
> It highlights spaces and tabs, not just newlines.

Also see bug#12496
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2012-09/msg01302.html