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authorChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2008-10-21 23:16:29 +0000
committerChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2008-10-21 23:16:29 +0000
commit8287838d14d8fbb54ff389483d3786714517ae87 (patch)
treed889aa4f18bd0aee0289298fa5da5dae9e404417 /doc
parentb328f1b99f61404546c310d1b7842f9f0b5f306f (diff)
downloademacs-8287838d14d8fbb54ff389483d3786714517ae87.tar.gz
(Diff Mode): Document diff-show-trailing-whitespaces.
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi
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--- a/doc/emacs/files.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi
@@ -2780,6 +2780,11 @@ descriptions of the changes. @kbd{C-x 4 a} itself in Diff mode
operates on behalf of the current hunk's file, but gets the function
name from the patch itself. This is useful for making log entries for
functions that are deleted by the patch.
+
+@item M-x diff-show-trailing-whitespaces RET
+@findex diff-show-trailing-whitespaces
+Highlight syntactically problematic trailing whitespace characters
+(usually errors introduced when editing a patch).
@end table