From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Toomas Rosin <toomas@rosin.ee>
Cc: 15821@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15821: a better M-SPC
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 16:42:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy54o6nli.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2866409.xsAelUrJXd@toomas>
> I hope this is the right place for the following suggestion.
It is.
> My version of M-SPC is an improvement over the original Emacs one in
> two respects: it operates both horizontally and vertically, and it
> takes a numeric argument. See the docstring for details.
I don't myself use M-SPC much and have never used its numeric argument,
so I'd like to hear what other users have to say about your suggestion.
Reading your docstring, I see the following changes:
1- On a non-empty blank line, leave exactly ARG spaces on it (without
ARG, make it empty).
2- On an empty line, delete all blank lines above and below it, leaving
ARG empty lines.
3- At the beginning or end of a non-blank line, delete all leading
resp. trailing whitespace, leaving ARG (by default, zero) spaces.
4- Don't treat a negative ARG as meaning to also delete newlines.
Point 4 sounds like an oversight (you don't yourself use that "negative
ARG" feature, so you didn't bother to implement it), right?
For points 1 to 3, the main issue I see with them is that some people
apparently tend to like M-SPC so much that they hit M-SPC when they just
want to insert a SPC (Richard mentioned doing that, recently), so
changing M-SPC so that it sometimes finishes with no space at point can
be an annoyance.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-16 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-06 9:36 bug#15821: a better M-SPC Toomas Rosin
2013-11-16 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-01-21 1:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-21 9:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-01-22 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2020-02-28 23:21 ` Stefan Kangas
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