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: Patch to change just-one-space Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:14:23 +0900 Message-ID: <87skfvfb80.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <7b501d5c0908131337g300e8895i465719007e29074c@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250212494 24679 80.91.229.12 (14 Aug 2009 01:14:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:14:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: Deniz Dogan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 14 03:14:47 2009 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 4.50) id 1MblNP-0001uP-Fs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:14:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51693 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MblNO-0007Hq-QH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MblNK-0007G3-7l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:14:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MblNF-0007DN-Pv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:14:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50548 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MblNF-0007DK-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:14:29 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]:47115) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MblNC-00071H-Ke; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:14:27 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.231.177.167.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.177.167] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1MblNA-0003Vg-Ff; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:14:24 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BF2D3DF93; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:14:23 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <7b501d5c0908131337g300e8895i465719007e29074c@mail.gmail.com> (Deniz Dogan's message of "Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:37:21 +0200") Original-Lines: 20 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:114212 Archived-At: Deniz Dogan writes: > I have long wanted to change the behavior of just-one-space to not > only delete spaces and tab characters, but newline characters as well. > > I don't think that this is such a controversial modification It dramatically changes the behavior of the command. In particular, just-one-space is currently a convenient way to shrink whitespace at the end of a line. There are no-doubt situations where such behavior would be desirable (e.g., typing in a filled paragraph) -- but it certainly not in all situations. E.g, I often use just-one-space in source code... -Miles -- Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.