> As I understand it, the newline that ends the last line in a paragraph > is normally soft. A hard newline would end the following blank line. > The newline added by require-final-newline would be at the end of the > last line in a paragraph, so it ought to be soft.
Both of the newline ends the last line in a paragraph, as well as the newline on the following blank line, are hard. You can verify this for yourself, but I can also illustrate it. First, recall that soft newlines are equivalent to spaces, so fill-paragraph can delete a soft newline or replace it with one or more spaces. Now if you have a paragraph foo foo\n bar bar\n \N foo bar\n ... where \n denotes a soft newline and \N a hard newline, then it is refilled to foo foo\n bar bar\N foo bar\n ... whereas foo foo\n bar bar\N \N foo bar\n can't be further refilled. > It is impossible to distinguish between a soft newline left at the end > of a line by require-final-newline, and a soft newline produced by, > e.g., a call to kill-line, > > I don't see how a call to kill-line can produce a newline. > I don't understand you. kill-line deletes up to and including the newline. Suppose the cursor is at the indicated position: foo-!-bar\n[EOB] Calling kill-lines gives foo-!-\n[EOB] which, since soft newlines can be converted to spaces, is refilled to foo-!-[EOB] The soft newline at the end is gobbled up. That's the problem. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
