From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace? Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:32:12 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87mxyptfyp.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <4CB6D99021EF440EAB10FFDB2740FE8B@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267646337 20409 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2010 19:58:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 03 20:58:53 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 1NmuiZ-0003qB-QL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:58:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmuiZ-0004Bf-A0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:58:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NmuND-0005CB-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:36:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59272 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmuNC-0005Ac-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:36:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmuNB-0004cD-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:36:46 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp-out3.starman.ee ([85.253.0.5]:49952 helo=mx1.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmuNB-0004c1-FI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:36:45 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (62.65.208.33.cable.starman.ee [62.65.208.33]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81673F411F; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 21:36:38 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: <4CB6D99021EF440EAB10FFDB2740FE8B@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:44:22 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.93 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:121615 Archived-At: > `delete-blank-lines' treats SPC, TAB, and newline as whitespace. > Shouldn't it also treat form-feed (aka \f, aka ^L) as whitespace? Maybe it should depend of the current buffer's syntax? I mean using "[:space:]" in `delete-blank-lines'. This has a problem: e.g. in Lisp mode \n has the `endcomment' syntax instead of `whitespace'. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/