From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace? Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:40:05 +0900 Message-ID: <87635cq2yy.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <4CB6D99021EF440EAB10FFDB2740FE8B@us.oracle.com> <4B8ED635.7010102@harpegolden.net> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267666885 20764 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2010 01:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 01:41:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 04 02:41:20 2010 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 1Nn040-0006ib-01 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:41:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nn03z-0007ai-G8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:41:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nn02x-00076D-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:40:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47884 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nn02v-00075m-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:40:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nn02q-0002Df-VE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:40:13 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]:56670) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nn02q-0002D6-IU; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:40:08 -0500 Original-Received: from 218.33.232.163.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.33.232.163] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1Nn02o-0005YJ-4C; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:40:06 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1DF55DF91; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:40:05 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <4B8ED635.7010102@harpegolden.net> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:35:49 +0000") Original-Lines: 20 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:121631 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden writes: > While it's logically formally a whitespace class character, I'm quite > unconvinced it would "feel right" to me. formfeed is usually put in > much more rarely and with more forethought than space/tab/newline. Yes I agree -- the formfeed character, when it is used, is for document structuring; it's not "whitespace" in the normal sense. It's sort of like the next-level above newline in a hierarchy. This suggests that perhaps there should be a command `delete-blank-pages', which would delete pages containing only blank lines (including the terminating formfeed). [Drew, wouldn't the latter command address your use?] -Miles -- Arrest, v. Formally to detain one accused of unusualness.