On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 2:09:31 PM UTC+12, Michael Torrie wrote: > It was later on that they figured out the N+1 thing you mentioned by > ignoring the character cells: > > 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > H E L L O W O R L D > > That works well for interactive editing, but it doesn't lend itself as > well to scripting and working with the contents of the text cells.
Emacs scripting works perfectly well with this convention. > I like that with vim I can see immediately whether there is trailing > space on a line just by jumping to the end of the line ($) which will > drop the cursor on the last actual character. Emacs has an option (which I have enabled) which shows trailing white space throughout your entire file in bright red. And I have also defined a single keystroke that will get rid of it all. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
