# HG changeset patch
# User Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
# Date 1216871760 0
# Node ID 56a6f086590e876091096eea735b8172958c7f3e
# Parent  729f146c194ca72b112c443871dec53823222836
Add whitespace package information.

diff -r 729f146c194c -r 56a6f086590e etc/ChangeLog
--- a/etc/ChangeLog	Thu Jul 24 02:55:59 2008 +0000
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog	Thu Jul 24 03:56:00 2008 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-07-24  Vinicius Jose Latorre  <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
+
+	* NEWS: Add information about whitespace package.
+
 2008-07-19  Juri Linkov  <juri@jurta.org>
 
 	* tutorials/TUTORIAL: Add information about C-g to the introduction.
diff -r 729f146c194c -r 56a6f086590e etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Thu Jul 24 02:55:59 2008 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Thu Jul 24 03:56:00 2008 +0000
@@ -498,7 +498,11 @@
 
 ** A new `whitespace' package has been installed, and the pre-existing one
 renamed to `old-whitespace'.
-[FIXME someone explain why this is good, if it is...]
+Now, besides reporting bogus blanks, whitespace package has a minor mode and a
+global minor mode to visualize blanks (TAB, (HARD) SPACE and NEWLINE).  The
+visualization is made via faces and/or display table. Also it is possible to
+select which kind of blanks should be visualized, for example, trailing blanks,
+leading blanks, spaces, tabs, newlines, etc.
 
 ** zeroconf.el offers service discovery and service publishing
 interfaces according to the zeroconf specification.  It communicates