Emacs: globally enable whitespace-mode

Question

I want globally enable whitespace-mode. I have tried this in my .emacs:

(require \'whitespace)
(setq-default whitespace-style \'(face trailing lines empty indent         


        

Answer 1

In general it's best to enable/disable modes by using the function call, not setting the variable (which is what you did for global-whitespace-mode).

Try:

(global-whitespace-mode 1)