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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Looking for some examples
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 22:10:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf35vrqq.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pmshvs69.fsf@zoho.eu

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

> Patrick Mahan wrote:
>
>> I am converting these all to inline functions and already
>> have some emacs lisp code written to handle converting
>> everything but the backslashes. I would like to remove the
>> backslashes, but I do not want to leave all that empty
>> whitespace behind. Is there a way to do this using
>> query-replace-regexp that also removes the whitespace?
>
> ;; (setq before-save-hook nil)
> (defun before-save-hook-f ()
>   (untab-all)
>   (delete-trailing-whitespace) )
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook #'before-save-hook-f)

Also see `whitespace-cleanup'.

As for your question ... can't you just add [[:space:]]* to
the regexp that matches the backslash and have all of
it removed?

Maybe better to just save the buffer still ...

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-06 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-06 19:30 Looking for some examples Patrick Mahan
2021-10-06 20:01 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-06 20:10   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-10-06 20:32 ` Stephen Berman
2021-10-06 20:47   ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-10-06 21:33   ` Patrick Mahan

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