what's a recommended way to jump at 'word' level within Clojure buffers? e.g. in hello-my-friend, if cursor if at h, I may want to jump to m and then to f currently I only have a way to jump across whole tokens, i.e. from h to d

evil-forward-word

or 'avy' for jumping word to anywhere in screen

avy seems rather nuclear for what I want 🙂

evil-f-w may be a choice, although I don't use evil. could bloat my dependencies

backward-word / forward-word seem good enough, hadn't bothered searching in good old M-x (especially with the smex improvement)

trying to accomplish what the screenshot here shows http://emacsredux.com/blog/2013/05/31/highlight-lines-that-exceed-a-certain-length-limit/

but I get little dots $s, etc, don't want those

I looked at various configs, including prelude. still not clear how to disable them

(setq whitespace-style '(face lines-tail))

exactly what I had tried 😞

Did you evaluate this?

I read the docs now and I’m pretty certain this is correct.

yes, eval'd

(plus I wrote this blog post and that’s my config) 😄

yes 🙂 made sure to reproduce the prelude config

says about face: > Enable all visualizations which use special faces. This element has a special meaning: if it is absent from the list, none of the other visualizations take effect except space-mark, tab-mark, and newline-mark. the "except" calls my attention. it's as if they were mandatory

You should start with face and then just list what you want visualized.

debugged the issue

the setq doesn't have an immediate effect

for it to be applied, I have to M-x whitespace-mode twice

thanks for the hints!