Re: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary empty lines in article body. New feature?

On 06.10.2008, at 12:05, Martin Klaiber wrote:

> Dennis Preiser <[email protected]> wrote:

>> How to treat empty lines:	Nothing special (default)
>> 				Skip leading
>> 				Skip tailing
>> 				Skip leading and tailing
>> 				Compact multiple between text
>> 				Compact multiple and skip leading
>> 				Compact multiple and skip tailing
>> 				Compact mltpl., skip lead. & tail

> My english is far from being good or perfect but AFAIK there are no
> 'empty' lines in english, they are called blank lines.

My initial approach was to distinguish between lines without any  
content (empty lines) and lines containing only whitespace (blank  
lines).

The text on the left side in the Option Menu should not exceed 35  
characters, so I named the options: 'How to treat empty lines' and  
'Treat blank lines as empty'.

However, I'm currently in favour of removing the second option. I  
think, the second option is overkill and not necessary. So the  
remaining option whould become 'How to treat blank lines' and blank  
lines are lines without any content and lines containing only  
whitespace (spaces and/or tabs).

> And 'tailing' should be 'trailing' IMHO.

I will send a revised patch within the next days.

Dennis