Re: Small sticking point in documentation

[Luc Teirlinck]

Richard Stallman wrote:

       is not quite correct. There's a slight difference between "C-j at the
       end of a line" and "<RET> followed by <TAB>": The function
       'newline-and-indent' eats up trailing whitespace while <RET> <TAB> does
       not.

   In programming modes, TAB does exactly that; it adjusts the indentation
   on the line, so that any indentation the line previously had
   is irrelevant.

   Anyway, I cleaned up this text.  Thanks.

I believe that you misunderstood.  I do not believe that Uwe was
talking about indentation at the beginning of a line.  He was talking
about _trailing_ whitespace.

If point is at the -!- at the end of the following line:

       one        -!-,

then after RET followed by tab, there will be trailing whitespace
after the "one".  After C-j, that trailing whitespace will be deleted.

Sincerely,

Luc.