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On 15 Nov 2002, Richard V. Molen wrote:

> Benjamin Lewis <bclewis@cs.sfu.ca> writes:
> 
>> Not quite what you want, but you could check out
>> `delete-horizontal-space' and 'just-one-space', bound by default to
>> `M-\' and 'M-<SPC>' respectively.
> 
> These key bindings are nice since they mesh well with M-d.
> 
> On another editor there was a function like that I miss...
> 
> if the cursor is at the end of line, pull up the next line (like C-k) 
> else
> if the cursor is on non-whitespace, delete all characters to end of line
> that are non-whitespace.
> else
> if the cursor is on whitespace, delete all characters to the end of line
> that are whitespace.
> 
> Does anyone have such a function?

Not sure I understand.  Where would you use this that C-k doesn't do what
you want?

Is the function `delete-trailing-whitespace' helpful?

-- 
Benjamin Lewis

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