From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace? Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:48:42 +0200 Message-ID: <83hbov2lxx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4CB6D99021EF440EAB10FFDB2740FE8B@us.oracle.com> <87mxyptfyp.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <45AE884B58464C6F8533A686709EB31B@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267779063 14660 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2010 08:51:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:51:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 05 09:50:59 2010 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnTD5-0004kV-W8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:48:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38902 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NnTD3-0004Uo-96 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:48:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NnTCw-0004T7-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34309 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NnTCv-0004RU-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:48:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnTCu-0000ws-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:48:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:40884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnTCu-0000wl-7S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:48:28 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KYS00900WG3R800@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:48:26 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.34.234]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KYS007P4WGP7S70@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:48:26 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121654 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:28:36 -0500 > Cc: 'Juri Linkov' , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > There's basically the notion of "blank" for characters that have no > associated semantics in the corresponding language. And then there's > the notion of "blank" for characters which *users* consider as having > no semantics. > > Usually the first includes form-feed and other such things and is best > handled by forward-comment. Usually the second only includes \s, \t, > \n, \r but doesn't include form-feed. Btw, as long as we are on this subject: `delete-blank-lines' should also support Unicode characters whose meaning is whitespace. Right now, it's strictly ASCII.