From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 14:10:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5i8ts$oh5$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4pzcm9xi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> text-mode is derived from Fundamental-mode, which has
>> a somewhat peculiar (IMO) interpretation of "whitespace":
>
>> C-@ .. SPC which means: whitespace
>> DEL .. ÿ which means: whitespace
>> which means: whitespace
>> .. which means: whitespace
>> <<default>> which means: whitespace
>
> This looks wrong. Why should all the control chars be considered whitespace
> in text-mode? Rather than try to use another major mode I think we should
> fix the above.
That's what I thought, but I don't see a more appropriate choice in the
Syntax Class Table node of the Emacs Lisp manual, which says this:
| "Whitespace characters" (designated by ` ' or `-') separate symbols
| and words from each other.
Thanks,
--
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-30 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-21 18:46 delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files Kim F. Storm
2006-05-21 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-22 15:11 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 22:31 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-27 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-30 20:10 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2006-06-01 14:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-02 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-02 8:28 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-02 22:39 ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-02 22:45 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-04 2:24 ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-06 20:25 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-06-06 21:16 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-06-07 2:20 ` Richard Stallman
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