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(Trailing Whitespace): Document that the option is buffer-local. Suggested by Robert Marshall <[e-mail]>.

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This face determines the colors and font of Emacs's menus.  Setting the
font of LessTif/Motif menus is currently not supported; attempts to set
the font are ignored in this case.
@item trailing-whitespace
The face for highlighting trailing whitespace when
@code{show-trailing-whitespace} is non-nil.
@item variable-pitch
The basic variable-pitch face.
@end table

@cindex @code{region} face

@vindex show-trailing-whitespace
  It is easy to leave unnecessary spaces at the end of a line without
realizing it.  In most cases, this @dfn{trailing whitespace} has no
effect, but there are special circumstances where it matters.

  You can make trailing whitespace visible on the screen by setting
the variable @code{show-trailing-whitespace} to @code{t}.  Then Emacs
displays trailing whitespace in the face @code{trailing-whitespace}.

  Trailing whitespace is defined as spaces or tabs at the end of a
line.  But trailing whitespace is not displayed specially if point is
at the end of the line containing the whitespace.  (Doing that looks
ugly while you are typing in new text, and the location of point is

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This face determines the colors and font of Emacs's menus.  Setting the
font of LessTif/Motif menus is currently not supported; attempts to set
the font are ignored in this case.
@item trailing-whitespace
The face for highlighting trailing whitespace when
@code{show-trailing-whitespace} is non-nil; see @ref{Trailing Whitespace}.
@item variable-pitch
The basic variable-pitch face.
@end table

@cindex @code{region} face

@vindex show-trailing-whitespace
  It is easy to leave unnecessary spaces at the end of a line without
realizing it.  In most cases, this @dfn{trailing whitespace} has no
effect, but there are special circumstances where it matters.

  You can make trailing whitespace visible on the screen by setting the
buffer-local variable @code{show-trailing-whitespace} to @code{t}.  Then
Emacs displays trailing whitespace in the face
@code{trailing-whitespace}.

  Trailing whitespace is defined as spaces or tabs at the end of a
line.  But trailing whitespace is not displayed specially if point is
at the end of the line containing the whitespace.  (Doing that looks
ugly while you are typing in new text, and the location of point is