From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Yavner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace? Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 17:34:27 -0500 Message-ID: <201003061734.27587.jyavner@rogers.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267959691 12660 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2010 11:01:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:01:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, eliz@gnu.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 07 02:44:42 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1No5Xf-0002PB-1K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:44:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54543 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1No5Xe-0002XT-GI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:44:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1No2Zu-0007Sf-IE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35242 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1No2Zt-0007SX-Nj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1No2Zp-0002c1-N6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:34:32 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.225.206]:31206) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1No2Zp-0002bf-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 76530 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2010 22:34:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=vpWEVAR0rXCVBjEAqOHfF+G9FYizlV8vUMhoQyYiS0VOfwV+wfjE6K/GGbyXTiPA5EJw0jwrAG5ZFEWPOROdhxqVIZ230RcILuNDXAVYlN6ChlhKh/WF9q7t7ugIscSX0f2SviwQxJHwC3wsCrTIWUW3pi5Yndwjjaqn9orSbqA= ; Original-Received: from daddy.localnet (jyavner@99.241.230.210 with plain) by smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 06 Mar 2010 14:34:28 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: b4_Ldn6swBD2EgfAXHmvudwJ5gFQJpF2Ko7GaRi..g-- X-YMail-OSG: 3keu8AIVM1klspDgIB8SUpF6_uxNh9GttlN2xRGekHKAt4er2xubMYm3nXCHQiqqRA-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.27-11-generic; KDE/4.1.4; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:41:42 -0500 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:121679 Archived-At: >> Btw, as long as we are on this subject: `delete-blank-lines' should >> also support Unicode characters whose meaning is whitespace. Right >> now, it's strictly ASCII. > > Does e.g. NBSP (#xa0) have whitespace meaning wrt > `delete-blank-lines'? http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/#DescriptionOfProperties No. NBSP is not a line-breaking character, so delete-blank-lines should not delete it. However, U+2009 (THIN SPACE) is considered to be a "breaking space" and thus arguably should be deleted.