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Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files
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David Kastrup |
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Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files |
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Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:28:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> >> This looks wrong. Why should all the control chars be
> >> considered whitespace in text-mode? Rather than try to use
> >> another major mode I think we should fix the above.
> >
> > That's what I thought, but I don't see a more appropriate
> > choice in the Syntax Class Table node of the Emacs Lisp
> > manual, which says this:
>
> We could give them Word syntax.
>
> Since they don't normally appear in proper English text, it is hard to
> argue that any choice of syntax is fundamentally wrong. It is just a
> matter of what seems marginally better. This problem is an argument
> that Word is marginally better than Whitespace.
I think "punctuation" would make more sense. This designates stuff
that is neither a component of words nor of symbols, and not
whitespace.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files, Kim F. Storm, 2006/06/01
- Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files, Richard Stallman, 2006/06/01
- Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files, Richard Stallman, 2006/06/02
- Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files, David Kastrup, 2006/06/02
- Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files, Richard Stallman, 2006/06/03
- Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files, Stuart D. Herring, 2006/06/06
- Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files, Stuart D. Herring, 2006/06/06
- Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files, Richard Stallman, 2006/06/06