Variable: magit-diff-paint-whitespace

magit-diff-paint-whitespace is a customizable variable defined in magit-diff.el.

Value

t

Documentation

Specify where to highlight whitespace errors.

nil Never highlight whitespace errors.
t Highlight whitespace errors everywhere.
uncommitted Only highlight whitespace errors in diffs
               showing uncommitted changes.

For backward compatibility status is treated as a synonym for uncommitted.

The option magit-diff-paint-whitespace-lines controls for what lines (added/remove/context) errors are highlighted.

The options magit-diff-highlight-trailing and magit-diff-highlight-indentation control what kind of whitespace errors are highlighted.

Source Code

;; Defined in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/magit-20260411.1452/magit-diff.el
(defcustom magit-diff-paint-whitespace t
  "Specify where to highlight whitespace errors.

`nil'          Never highlight whitespace errors.
`t'            Highlight whitespace errors everywhere.
`uncommitted'  Only highlight whitespace errors in diffs
               showing uncommitted changes.

For backward compatibility `status' is treated as a synonym
for `uncommitted'.

The option `magit-diff-paint-whitespace-lines' controls for
what lines (added/remove/context) errors are highlighted.

The options `magit-diff-highlight-trailing' and
`magit-diff-highlight-indentation' control what kind of
whitespace errors are highlighted."
  :group 'magit-diff
  :safe (##memq % '(t nil uncommitted status))
  :type '(choice (const :tag "In all diffs" t)
                 (const :tag "Only in uncommitted changes" uncommitted)
                 (const :tag "Never" nil)))