This makes `show-trailing-whitespace' happy, i.e. it does not mark the whole search box line as trailing spaces. Since the dot is invisible, this change makes no visible difference for `notmuch-hello'. --- emacs/notmuch-hello.el | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-hello.el b/emacs/notmuch-hello.el index 02017ce..38846ef 100644 --- a/emacs/notmuch-hello.el +++ b/emacs/notmuch-hello.el @@ -508,9 +508,12 @@ Complete list of currently available key bindings: (length "Search: "))) :action (lambda (widget &rest ignore) (notmuch-hello-search (widget-value widget)))) - ;; add an invisible space to make `widget-end-of-line' ignore - ;; trailine spaces in the search widget field - (widget-insert " ") + ;; Add an invisible dot to make `widget-end-of-line' ignore + ;; trailing spaces in the search widget field. A dot is used + ;; instead of a space to make `show-trailing-whitespace' + ;; happy, i.e. avoid it marking the whole line as trailing + ;; spaces. + (widget-insert ".") (put-text-property (1- (point)) (point) 'invisible t) (widget-insert "\n") -- 1.7.8.3