defering indent upon newline

In perl-mode with font-lock on, when you have whitespace at the end of line, including when you have just indented, you end up with an ugly underline. This is of course intentional, to encourage you to get rid of wasted whitespace. But, if you have newline-and-indent turned on, you get whitespace automatically, and this only gets removed if you put in more newlines. If you want to seperate a block by newlines either side, you have to juggle the cursor all over the place before you end up with two blank lines, and a line in the middle indented correctly. And you can't just kill the whitespace on an otherwise blank line with ctrl-k, because it kills the entire line including the newline. So, in light of this, does it make sense to defer the indenting of the current line until a character is actually input on that line? Anyone with with any elisp skills got an idea of how to do that? -- Tim Connors _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta