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Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace? |
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:14:56 +0200 |
> From: Jonathan Yavner <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 17:34:27 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> >> 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.
- RE: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?, (continued)
Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/03/03
Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?, Jonathan Yavner, 2010/03/06
- Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?,
Eli Zaretskii <=