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Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline |
Date: |
Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:49:10 -0500 (EST) |
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> As I see it, the rationale for turning on require-final-newline is
> that a particular type of file should always end in a newline. The
> user should type RET himself, but in case he forgets to do so, Emacs
> does it for him. So (newline) should be used.
>
> That is true. But those kinds of files are in special formats, not
> human-language text. What is the motive for setting use-hard-newlines
> in one of those buffers?
Require-final-newline is a user option, and if a user customizes it to t
then it is turned on for every buffer, even for human-language text. A
user might do this if he want every file he edits to end in a newline.
> The specific problem I am trying to solve is with Longlines mode
> (which is not part of Emacs.) It is, in principle, impossible for
> Longlines to distinguish between the soft newline inserted by
> require-final-newline and the soft newline inserted by filling when
> performing automatic line wrapping.
>
> "Automatic line wrapping" is not a normal Emacs term, and I am not
> sure what you mean by it. Do you mean Auto Fill mode? If so,
> longlines can distinguish the two cases because the newline inserted
> by Auto Fill mode is not at the end of the line.
>
> If it means something else, could you please say what?
Like Emacs' built-in Refill mode, Longlines does filling after every user
command, except that it uses its own filling functions (for various
reasons that have to do with simulating the behavior of "word-wrapped"
text editors.) In any case, it makes use of use-hard-newlines to keep
track of hard and soft newlines.
It is impossible to distinguish between a soft newline left at the end of
a line by require-final-newline, and a soft newline produced by, e.g., a
call to kill-line, simply by looking at the context. Both are soft, and
both occur at the end of a line. Both newlines might even occur at the end
of a buffer, if that was the final line. But the first is conceptually a
hard newline, and should not be converted into a space by filling; whereas
the second is a "real" soft newline.
- (no subject), Chong Yidong, 2005/03/01
- Re: (no subject), Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/01
- require-hard-newlines to use newline, Chong Yidong, 2005/03/01
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/01
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline, Richard Stallman, 2005/03/02
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline, Richard Stallman, 2005/03/03
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline, Chong Yidong, 2005/03/03
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/03
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline, Chong Yidong, 2005/03/03
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline, Miles Bader, 2005/03/03
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline, Chong Yidong, 2005/03/04
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline, David Kastrup, 2005/03/04
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline, Richard Stallman, 2005/03/04
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/07
- Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline, Chong Yidong, 2005/03/07