RE: Non-breaking space entry in NEWS

[Drew Adams]

> > NEWS contains this line:
> 
> >   *** Non-breaking space is now displayed as whitespace.
> 
> > Does anyone remember what does this entry refers to?  
> Non-breaking space
> > is highlighted (nobreak-char-display defaults to t), just 
> like in Emacs
> > 23.  What's changed?
> 
> The original news entry (before the reorganisition change on Jun
> 26) was by Richard.
> 
> | * Lisp changes in Emacs 23.1
> 
> | ** Non-breaking space now acts as whitespace.
> 
> And goes along with the following change:
> 
> | 2007-07-30  Richard Stallman  <address@hidden>
> 
> |        * emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el (emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table):
> |        Treat non-break space as whitespace in Lisp.
> 
> 
> | 2007-07-30  Richard Stallman  <address@hidden>
> 
> |        * lread.c (readevalloop, read1): Treat NBSP as whitespace.

I believe this was the thread that led to the change:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg01297.html