simplifying emacs whitespace mode

If you’re looking at a file and trying to figure out what’s going on in the whitespace department, emacs defaults for whitespace mode are a bit crazy. 

Case in point:

whitespace-mode-default

Seriously not fun to look at. This post has some good tips for removing the colors and using unicode characters for newline and tab markers.  Makes life much more pleasant. 

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