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Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?
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Jonathan Yavner |
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Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace? |
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Sat, 6 Mar 2010 17:34:27 -0500 |
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>> 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.
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> 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. However, U+2009 (THIN SPACE) is considered to be a
"breaking space" and thus arguably should be deleted.