Re: shouldn't `delete-blank-lines' treat form-feed as whitespace?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jonathan Yavner <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:34:16 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > How is the line-breaking property relevant to this function?
> 
> If it isn't, why are we talking about FF and VT?  They don't display as 
> "blank" in Emacs.
> 
> If the point is to close up blank lines, this is sort of like line-
> breaking in reverse, so only line-break characters should be deleted.
> 
> Function delete-trailing-whitespace specifically states that it does not 
> delete FF.  It also doesn't delete VT.  So why should
> delete-blank-lines delete these?

I have no opinion about FF and VT.  I was talking about NBSP and its
ilk.