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I'm not sure what I did, but I'm trying to use M-x whitespace-cleanup in a python file and nothing happens. How do I debug this?

daeda
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    Have you tried it with no init file (`emacs -Q`)? –  Oct 28 '18 at 18:30
  • I tried now and this seams to work. So best would be to comment everything and see what prevents it? – daeda Oct 29 '18 at 20:50
  • You can try to bisect your init file manually or use a tool like https://github.com/Malabarba/elisp-bug-hunter –  Oct 29 '18 at 20:59

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Ok I narrowed it down to the following line

(setq whitespace-style ' (face space-mark tab-mark))

If I remove it whitespace-cleanup works. Probably I'm overwriting something that is necessary for it to work. If I change the line to

(setq-default whitespace-style ' (face tabs spaces trailing space-before-tab newline indentation empty space-after-tab space-mark tab-mark newline-mark))

everything works fine.

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