Re: replacement for whitespace-tab

[Stephen Berman]

On 24 Oct 2017 00:55:23 GMT Will Parsons <wbp@nodomain.invalid> wrote:

> Emanuel Berg wrote:
>> Will Parsons wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed that in one of my Emacs
>>> configurations I had customized the value of
>>> whitespace-tab to better distinguish visually
>>> tabs from spaces. When I did a C-h v on the
>>> variable (under Emacs 25.2) I got the message:
>>>
>>> This variable is obsolete since 24.4; use the
>>> face instead.
>>
>> Use the face! :) ???
>
> Um, how?  That is the question.

By typing `M-x customize-face'.  The file whitespace.el defines both a
variable and a face named `whitespace-tab', and the former is now
obsolete.

Steve Berman