Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!KESTREL.ARPA!king From: king@KESTREL.ARPA (Dick King) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.lisp.manual Subject: GNU Emacs Manual: clarifying meaning of "blank" lines Message-ID: <8811292113.AA01891@kestrel.arpa> Date: 29 Nov 88 20:13:24 GMT References:<8811282135.AA10253@prep.ai.mit.edu> Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 27 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 88 16:42 EDT From: X-Original-To: gnu-manual@prep.ai.mit.edu 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