bug#18732: [PATCH] whitespace-mode: add 'many-tabs style highlighting multiple TABs

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:14:06 +0200 Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> wrote: 

MN> Add a 'many-tabs style to `whitespace-mode' designed to be used
MN> in conjunction with 'tab style to indicate when indention level
MN> is getting too big.  By default, four TABs are considered many
MN> but `whitespace-many-tabs-regexp' can be configured to change
MN> that.

I like the feature, but for source files without tabs, it wouldn't work
well, right? Maybe it should also support too much space (32 spaces by
defaults)? And I think it should be called 'too-much-indent or something
like that, because it's not about highlighting tabs per se.

Ted