Re: [Q] copy delete-trailing-whitespace from Emacs 23.

Andreas Röhler writes: Please trim your posts, Andreas. Not in XEmacs core or packages as far as I can tell, and that's a horrible name for a core variable, although it's easy to see why it would arise as an internal variable of the "whitespace" library. If that's from GNU Emacs, it still runs into the fact that this is redundant. The basic idea is trivially implementable in only slightly less sophisticated form, simply treating formfeed as non-whitespace: (while (search-forward #r"[ \t]$" nil t) (delete-horizontal-space)) This should typically be good enough, since formfeed is normally visible as "^L", so whitespace preceding "^L" at end of line will usually be quite visible), and much more sophisticated functionality is available in the package distribution as whitespace.el and whitespace-visual.el. OTOH, I have trouble imagining a use case for the more general feature that would not be more useful if non-trailing whitespace were cleaned up, too. That is, I don't understand why someone would go to the trouble of entering no-break spaces or non-default-width spaces at the end of the line if they didn't specifically want them there, and I don't see any reason why they would get them inadvertantly, while there are all kinds of reasons why people inadvertantly end up with trailing ASCII whitespace. AFAIK Didier is not actively improving whitespace.el, but he made a point of accepting maintainership, and I'm sure he'd respond quickly to patch submissions. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta