diff --git a/dotfiles/kakoune.kak b/dotfiles/kakoune.kak
index eb92a07..e47e85d 100644
--- a/dotfiles/kakoune.kak
+++ b/dotfiles/kakoune.kak
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
     face global Whitespace {{@@ nontxt @@}},default+f
     face global BufferPadding blue,default
     # highlight trailing whitespace
-    add-highlighter global/ regex '\h*$' 0:red,red
+    add-highlighter global/ regex '\h*$' 0:red,red+g
 
     #lsp
     {%@@ set cols = {