From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [RFC] trim.el -- Functions to delete extra whitespace Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:35:47 -0800 Message-ID: <200802121436.m1CEa4db015770@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202827101 15638 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2008 14:38:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Sean MacLennan - trim.el" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jari Aalto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 12 15:38:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JOwHF-0006o7-Vf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:38:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOwGm-0007hQ-5a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:38:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOwFp-00072t-Dd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:37:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOwFk-000724-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:37:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOwFk-00071z-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:36:56 -0500 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOwFk-0002SJ-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:36:56 -0500 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1203431770.43567@/YFWTdLBHamhv7D475uRxw Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m1CEa4db015770; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:36:04 -0800 (PST) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Jari Aalto's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:53:41 +0200") Original-Lines: 10 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:88866 Archived-At: Jari Aalto writes: > I'd lke to suggest adding trim.el to the distribution. It provides > handy functions to fix buffer's/region's whitespace problems. Does it provide anything that emacs/lisp/whitespace.el in CVS HEAD does not provide? If yes, then can the code be integrated in whitespace.el? It's not desirable for users to have to learn about 2 different packages to get very closely related functionality.