From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:40:05 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87635cq2yy.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B8ED635.7010102@harpegolden.net> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:35:49 +0000")
David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> writes:
> While it's logically formally a whitespace class character, I'm quite
> unconvinced it would "feel right" to me. formfeed is usually put in
> much more rarely and with more forethought than space/tab/newline.
Yes I agree -- the formfeed character, when it is used, is for document
structuring; it's not "whitespace" in the normal sense.
It's sort of like the next-level above newline in a hierarchy.
This suggests that perhaps there should be a command
`delete-blank-pages', which would delete pages containing only blank
lines (including the terminating formfeed).
[Drew, wouldn't the latter command address your use?]
-Miles
--
Arrest, v. Formally to detain one accused of unusualness.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-04 1:40 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
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 [this message]
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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