On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Duncan Simpson wrote: > > Surely deleteing superflous spaces is just a matter of M-x > delete-trailing-whitespace, which you learn about under the Display, Trailing > whitespace. It operates in the whoole buffer so hit C-x n n (narrow to region) > if you want to restrict it to an area of a buffer, and C-x n w (widen) when you > want to see the rest of the buffer again. This is not cc-mode specific. You > could also get the same effect with a regex-replace. > > Incidently the indent-region menu item and command can be reach via C-M-\ > (which is bound to indent-region). I think it operates in most major modes > where such an operation makes sense. You can also convert spaces to tabs and > spaces in the region with M-x tabify and revert to just spaces with M-x > untabify, neither of which can cc mode specific. > > A feature you might not be aware of is using M-q is for formatting multiple > line comments. I guess a lot of people have also discovered VC mode too. Given > all the above it is any suprise I am hopelessly addicted to emacs for all major > editing :-)
You started a new thread to tell us this! What was wrong with continuing the previous pointless whitespace thread! Why start a new pointless whitespace thread when a perfectly good one already existed! Any responses should please be made to the "[PATCH] tiny whitespace" thread. Allan. (ARRae)
