Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?

[Miles Bader]

David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden> writes:
> While it's logically formally a whitespace class character, I'm quite
> unconvinced it would "feel right" to me.   formfeed is usually put in
> much more rarely and with more forethought than space/tab/newline.

Yes I agree -- the formfeed character, when it is used, is for document
structuring; it's not "whitespace" in the normal sense.

It's sort of like the next-level above newline in a hierarchy.

This suggests that perhaps there should be a command
`delete-blank-pages', which would delete pages containing only blank
lines (including the terminating formfeed).

[Drew, wouldn't the latter command address your use?]

-Miles

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