- ;; 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 ".")