From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:48:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83hbov2lxx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr5o04t2a.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:28:36 -0500
> Cc: 'Juri Linkov' <juri@jurta.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> There's basically the notion of "blank" for characters that have no
> associated semantics in the corresponding language. And then there's
> the notion of "blank" for characters which *users* consider as having
> no semantics.
>
> Usually the first includes form-feed and other such things and is best
> handled by forward-comment. Usually the second only includes \s, \t,
> \n, \r but doesn't include form-feed.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-05 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-28 20:44 shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace? Drew Adams
2010-03-03 19:32 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-03 19:54 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-04 4:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-05 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-03-06 17:57 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-06 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-03 21:35 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-03-03 22:21 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-04 1:40 ` Miles Bader
2010-03-04 6:21 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <E1No0yT-0007vs-HZ@mail.fsf.org>
2010-03-06 22:34 ` Jonathan Yavner
2010-03-07 4:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-07 4:34 ` Jonathan Yavner
2010-03-07 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-07 18:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-07 5:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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