changeset 96967:56a6f086590e

Add whitespace package information.
author Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
date Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:56:00 +0000
parents 729f146c194c
children df4f1b00491d
files etc/ChangeLog etc/NEWS
diffstat 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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.
--- 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