Re: Patch to change just-one-space

[Tassilo Horn]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Attached is a bzr bundle which does this. If the user passes the
>> argument -N, it will remove any whitespace characters (spaces, tabs,
>> carriage returns, newlines) and leave N spaces. Unfortunately I
>> couldn't think of a good way to make e.g. "M-- M-0 M-SPC" leave 0
>> spaces.
>
> Any objection to such a change?  Removing newlines sounds OK to me, but
> I don't use just-one-space, so I don't have a good feeling for what
> other useful meaning could be used for a negative argument.

I'd highly appreciate such a change.  The last week I had to paste tons
of Java code into several LaTeX listings and I used `just-one-space' and
`kill-line' gazillions of times to reformat it.

And since C-u -1 M-SPC for any negative number is equivalent to C-u 0
M-SPC, I don't think it won't have big impact, at least not in
interactive usage.  And inside the emacs code base, there is only one
call to `just-one-space' with an argument (emulation/cua-rect.el), but
that uses an explitit arg of 0.

Bye,
Tassilo