Variable: whitespace-space-after-tab-regexp

whitespace-space-after-tab-regexp is a customizable variable defined in whitespace.el.gz.

Value

("	+\\(\\( \\{%d,\\}\\)+\\)" . "\\(	+\\) \\{%d,\\}")

Documentation

Specify regexp for tab-width or more SPACEs after TAB.

It is a cons where the cons car is used for SPACEs visualization and the cons cdr is used for TABs visualization.

Used when whitespace-style includes space-after-tab, space-after-tab::tab or space-after-tab::space.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/whitespace.el.gz
(defcustom whitespace-space-after-tab-regexp
  '("\t+\\(\\( \\{%d,\\}\\)+\\)"
    . "\\(\t+\\) \\{%d,\\}")
  "Specify regexp for `tab-width' or more SPACEs after TAB.

It is a cons where the cons car is used for SPACEs visualization
and the cons cdr is used for TABs visualization.

Used when `whitespace-style' includes `space-after-tab',
`space-after-tab::tab' or `space-after-tab::space'."
  :type '(cons (string :tag "SPACEs After TAB")
	       string)
  :group 'whitespace)