From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jonathan Yavner <jyavner@rogers.com>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:14:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wrxo3gzj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003061734.27587.jyavner@rogers.com>
> From: Jonathan Yavner <jyavner@rogers.com>
> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 17:34:27 -0500
> Cc: juri@jurta.org, eliz@gnu.org
>
> >> 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.
> >
> > Does e.g. NBSP (#xa0) have whitespace meaning wrt
> > `delete-blank-lines'?
>
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/#DescriptionOfProperties
>
> No. NBSP is not a line-breaking character, so delete-blank-lines should
> not delete it.
How is the line-breaking property relevant to this function? The doc
string says just "delete all surrounding blank lines". It doesn't
mention line-breaking at all. The question is, should a line
consisting only of NBSP characters be considered a blank line.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-07 4:14 UTC|newest]
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2010-03-06 22:34 ` shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace? Jonathan Yavner
2010-03-07 4:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-03-07 4:34 ` Jonathan Yavner
2010-03-07 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-07 18:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-07 5:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-02-28 20:44 Drew Adams
2010-03-03 19:32 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-03 19:54 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-04 4:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-05 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-06 17:57 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-06 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-03 21:35 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-03-03 22:21 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-04 1:40 ` Miles Bader
2010-03-04 6:21 ` Drew Adams
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