ROBERTS%UORNSRL.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (11/29/88)
I have just got GNU Emacs 18.52 up and running and have been going through the manual. In section 10.1.2 "Killing by Lines," the comments about C-k killing a "blank line" caught my attention. For the novice, a distinction should be made between an apparently blank line (containing whitespace) and a truly blank line (containing only LFD). I realize this could be considered picking nits, but thought I'd mention it anyway. Roland Roberts BITNET: roberts@uornsrl.bitnet Nuclear Structure Research Lab INTERNET: rbr4@db2.cc.rochester.edu 271 East River Road UUCP: rochester!ur-cc!rbr4 Rochester, NY 14267 AT&T: (716) 275-8962
king@KESTREL.ARPA (Dick King) (11/30/88)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 88 16:42 EDT
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I have just got GNU Emacs 18.52 up and running and have been going through
the manual. In section 10.1.2 "Killing by Lines," the comments about C-k
killing a "blank line" caught my attention. For the novice, a distinction
should be made between an apparently blank line (containing whitespace)
and a truly blank line (containing only LFD).
I realize this could be considered picking nits, but thought I'd mention it
anyway.
C-k kills any line that looks blank, even if there be spaces or tabs.
Perhaps your comment should be to this effect; more experienced
compophiles who are new to EMACS [or who have used such things as
Unipress EMACS] would expect lines full of whitespace to be treated as
nonblank lines.
Roland Roberts BITNET: roberts@uornsrl.bitnet
Nuclear Structure Research Lab INTERNET: rbr4@db2.cc.rochester.edu
271 East River Road UUCP: rochester!ur-cc!rbr4
Rochester, NY 14267 AT&T: (716) 275-8962
-dk