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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Subject: Re: Picture Mode Question Date: 22 Feb 2001 12:45:33 +0100 On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Timothy Goldfield wrote: > The problem with all these minor modes is they add white space > characters to the ends of lines. If you then want to delete a line > using the delete key you have to delete all the white space > characters afetr the program code. If you've been jumping around the > code there could be many of them and deleteing multiple lines. Is > there something I could do or install that when deleting forward > once you get to a stage where the only characters on the line are > whitespace it deletes them all in one action? Good things to search for in Deja or Google are: whitespace.el delete-trailing-whitespace delete-trailing-blanks blank-mode.el blanks-mode.el kai -- Be indiscrete. Do it continuously.