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Miguel Frasson <frasson@enquist.math.leidenuniv.nl> writes:

> I would like to have a elisp function that detects if the current
> line contains only white space. Some idea?

Probably not the best way to do it, but this is from my utils file

(defun line-empty-p ()
  "Returns non-nil if current line is empty."
  (save-excursion
    (end-of-line)
    (let ((eol (point)))
      (beginning-of-line)
      (not (re-search-forward "[^ \t]" eol t)))))

-- 
jan