title: How to disable Emacs highlighting whitespace in parenthesis?
body: <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JkYdK.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>In the above screenshot, it can be seen that Emacs highlights the whitespace between parentheses, unless I move my cursor one place to either side.</p>
  
  <p>I have smartparens enabled in my emacs config, but even if I disable them, this problem still persists. 
  I also don't have whitespace-mode enabled. </p>
  
  <p>Any idea what may be causing this?</p>
  
  <p>The relevant part of my config:</p>
  
  <pre><code>(require 'smartparens-config)
  (smartparens-global-mode t)
  (show-smartparens-global-mode t)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>