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From: Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk>
Subject: Re: detect if line has only white space?
Date: 10 Nov 2003 17:47:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vfllqoru7l.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gyllqoyva7.fsf@enquist.math.leidenuniv.nl

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

  Miguel> Hello.

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

  Miguel> Aditionally, I would like to remove all space at the end of
  Miguel> the lines at once (e-lisp code). How?



(forward-word) will move past the end of the line. 

Or you get check whether a white space only regexp match is the same
length as the entire line. 

Others may have better suggestions.



Cheers

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-10 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-10 17:42 detect if line has only white space? Miguel Frasson
2003-11-10 17:47 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2003-11-10 17:51 ` marc0
2003-11-10 18:39   ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2003-11-13 13:47   ` LEE Sau Dan
2003-11-10 18:40 ` Johan Bockgård
2003-11-11 12:13 ` François Fleuret
2003-11-11 21:38 ` jan

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