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Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace? |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:08:21 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> How is the line-breaking property relevant to this function? The doc
> string says just "delete all surrounding blank lines". It doesn't
> mention line-breaking at all. The question is, should a line
> consisting only of NBSP characters be considered a blank line.
My understanding of the Unicode standard is that whitespace characters
are blanks. Interestingly enough, however, in many cases they are
treated as non-blank characters that happen to be extremely
conservative of ink. :-) Eg, one oftens see the "<TAG> </TAG>"
idiom in HTML (especially in TD elements).
Nevertheless, I think NBSP ought to be treated as a blank for the
purpose of `delete-blank-lines'.
- Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?, (continued)
Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/03/03
Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?, Jonathan Yavner, 2010/03/06