How to turn off ‘tab’ highlighting in go buffers?

I’ve just started writing Go programs in Emacs. How can I turn off tabs highlighting in go-mode buffers? I use «whitespace» for whitespace chars highlighting. Go btw is the only mode where I don’t want tabs highlighted since tabs are standard formatting in Go.

Sincerely, Pavel.

To be clear, you're doing something like

(require 'whitespace)
(global-whitespace-mode t)

right? You can disable whitespace-mode for go-mode with

(setq whitespace-global-modes '(not go-mode))

There is a related question on emacs stack exchange.

I found that this

(add-hook 'go-mode-hook
      (lambda ()
        (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'gofmt-before-save)
        (setq whitespace-style '(face empty trailing lines-tail))
        (setq tab-width 4)
        (setq indent-tabs-mode 1)))

Worked a bit better for me. Leaves whitespace-mode on but doesn't highlight tabs. Also runs go fmt before save and sets tab width to 4. I'm using prelude.

Add this line

(whitespace-toggle-options '(tabs)))

To your go-mode hook e.g

(use-package go-mode
  :preface
  (defun go-mode-config ()
    (whitespace-toggle-options '(tabs)))
  :config
  (add-hook 'go-mode-hook (lambda ()
                            (go-mode-config))))

Taken from prelue go config