Re: improvement for `delete-indentation'

[Richard Stallman]

    *** simple.el~      Sat Dec 13 23:36:52 2003
    --- simple.el       Thu Jan  8 13:59:50 2004
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    *** 223,228 ****
    --- 228,237 ----
                              (buffer-substring (point)
                                                (+ (point) (length 
fill-prefix)))))
                (delete-region (point) (+ (point) (length fill-prefix))))
    +   ;; Line continuation indicated by an odd number of trailing
    +   ;; escape chars.
    +   (unless (zerop (% (save-excursion (skip-syntax-backward "\\")) 2))
    +     (delete-backward-char))
            (fixup-whitespace))))

      (defalias 'join-line #'delete-indentation) ; easier to find


    > PS: Luckily TeX uses / syntax rather than \ syntax for the backslash char 
so
    > the above code won't trigger.  But then your code might want to also 
trigger
    > in the case of / syntax (which is exactly the same from the C code's point
    > of view).

    Maybe.  I don't know enough about modes which might use it.

If someone wants to install this, please add a variable to enable it.
Someone else can make modes set that var.