Add whitespace package information.

2f56f788 · Vinicius Jose Latorre · f63b48bb · 2f56f788 · 2f56f788
Commit 2f56f788 authored Jul 24, 2008 by Vinicius Jose Latorre
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+2008-07-24  Vinicius Jose Latorre  <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
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+	* NEWS: Add information about whitespace package.
+
 2008-07-19  Juri Linkov  <juri@jurta.org>

 	* tutorials/TUTORIAL: Add information about C-g to the introduction.

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@@ -498,7 +498,11 @@ lines.  This is a more reliable replacement for longlines-mode.

 ** 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.

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 interfaces according to the zeroconf specification.  It communicates