Re: [AUCTeX] Trailing whitespace and RET

[David Kastrup]

Uwe Siart <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Uwe Siart <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I found that AUCTeX eats up trailing whitespace in the current line
>>> after pressing RET. In case this is a wanted behaviour: Can it be
>>> customized if it was undesired?
>>
>> Could you tell why you would think it a desired behavior? [...] So
>> what situation causes you trouble?
>
> The situation where it caused trouble: I tried to compose a rectangular
> region with some material which I wanted to yank back at several
> positions via rectangle registers. During composition of this
> rectangular/tabular material within the TeX buffer, I found that RET
> deleted those whitespaces (they were wanted here, for source formatting
> purposes).

I don't see what the problem is.  If you cut and paste a rectangle,
the parts get padded with blanks on pasting even if the original parts
had "early ending" lines.

> To conclude it in few words: Of course, multiple whitespace is not
> needed for (La)TeX, but for code formatting and beautifying.

Can you come up with a single _actual_ example where the current
behavior causes a problem?  I mean, a given text file and a sequence
of keystrokes that does not lead to the desired result?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum