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> * I personally like how it highlights text that goes past column 79, as well as trailing space. To the ketchup and mustard guy: move point to ketchup and/or mustard; M-x customize-face; remove background color or make more subtle; done! --DarrenEmbry
Nice little minor-mode that will make your buffer all nice and flashy when you break some formatting rules, that is, it makes great reason to start TabsAndSpacesDiscussion? all over again 
Available at: http://www.jpl.org/ftp/pub/elisp/develock.el.gz or at your near Debian repo (that’s the way I actually learned about it, Debian packagers keep amazing me 