From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
Cc: xemacs@seanm.ca, jari.aalto@cante.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] trim.el -- Functions to delete extra whitespace
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:30:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802171630.m1HGUqed027238@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B65D8B.2060308@ig.com.br> (Vinicius Jose Latorre's message of "Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:50:35 -0300")
Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br> 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.
> >
>
>
> Yes, there are some functionalities that whitespace.el doesn't have,
> that is, trim-defines (well, is this function useful?)
IMHO it is not. What is the point of this function?
> and untrim-lines.
The name of this function is confusing, and what it does is to add ^M at
the end of each line in the region. Not useful.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-17 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-12 11:53 [RFC] trim.el -- Functions to delete extra whitespace Jari Aalto
2008-02-12 14:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-16 3:50 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2008-02-17 13:22 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-17 17:20 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2008-02-17 16:30 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
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