Improve doc strings in whitespace.el

* lisp/whitespace.el (whitespace-mode, whitespace-newline-mode)
(global-whitespace-mode, global-whitespace-newline-mode): Improve
the doc strings.  (Bug#24413)

This was backported from master
(cherry picked from commit 3462fe73351f3da5bc3ebf8296ee44dd2e6b1dbc)

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/whitespace.el b/lisp/whitespace.el
index af906bab38f..0f6b8df03de 100644
--- a/lisp/whitespace.el
+++ b/lisp/whitespace.el
@@ -1031,8 +1031,10 @@ Any other value is treated as nil."
 (define-minor-mode whitespace-mode
   "Toggle whitespace visualization (Whitespace mode).
 With a prefix argument ARG, enable Whitespace mode if ARG is
-positive, and disable it otherwise.  If called from Lisp, enable
-the mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
+positive, and disable it otherwise.
+
+If called from Lisp, also enables the mode if ARG is omitted or nil,
+and toggles it if ARG is `toggle'.
 
 See also `whitespace-style', `whitespace-newline' and
 `whitespace-display-mappings'."
@@ -1054,8 +1056,10 @@ See also `whitespace-style', `whitespace-newline' and
 (define-minor-mode whitespace-newline-mode
   "Toggle newline visualization (Whitespace Newline mode).
 With a prefix argument ARG, enable Whitespace Newline mode if ARG
-is positive, and disable it otherwise.  If called from Lisp,
-enable the mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
+is positive, and disable it otherwise.
+
+If called from Lisp, also enables the mode if ARG is omitted or nil,
+and toggles it if ARG is `toggle'.
 
 Use `whitespace-newline-mode' only for NEWLINE visualization
 exclusively.  For other visualizations, including NEWLINE
@@ -1082,8 +1086,10 @@ See also `whitespace-newline' and `whitespace-display-mappings'."
 (define-minor-mode global-whitespace-mode
   "Toggle whitespace visualization globally (Global Whitespace mode).
 With a prefix argument ARG, enable Global Whitespace mode if ARG
-is positive, and disable it otherwise.  If called from Lisp,
-enable it if ARG is omitted or nil.
+is positive, and disable it otherwise.
+
+If called from Lisp, also enables the mode if ARG is omitted or nil,
+and toggles it if ARG is `toggle'.
 
 See also `whitespace-style', `whitespace-newline' and
 `whitespace-display-mappings'."
@@ -1141,8 +1147,10 @@ This variable is normally modified via `add-function'.")
 (define-minor-mode global-whitespace-newline-mode
   "Toggle global newline visualization (Global Whitespace Newline mode).
 With a prefix argument ARG, enable Global Whitespace Newline mode
-if ARG is positive, and disable it otherwise.  If called from
-Lisp, enable it if ARG is omitted or nil.
+if ARG is positive, and disable it otherwise.
+
+If called from Lisp, also enables the mode if ARG is omitted or nil,
+and toggles it if ARG is `toggle'.
 
 Use `global-whitespace-newline-mode' only for NEWLINE
 visualization exclusively.  For other visualizations, including