[O] parsing fixed with section

[Steven Haryanto]

Dear all,

As I understand it, a fixed width section (BTW, is "fixed width section" the official term for this?) is defined as a line which is started by zero or more spaces, and then a colon, *and then a space*, and then zero or more characters.

:<spc>line1

:<spc>

:<spc>line3

But many editors (Emacs including) likes to trim trailing spaces, so when the file is saved, the second line loses its space:

:<spc>line1

:

:<spc>line3

Should the second line be parsed as a fixed width section too or not?

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