Thanks for this Rob. Never noticed this before :) I tried, and it's true that extract (a common command I also use often) seems to remove trailing (white) lines. (tested with trailing empty lines and some with space characters in them. they were all removed. (never really noticed this before because I lazily select what I want from the top and dont care where i stop after the chunk of code in many empty lines below it.)
But in cases where people are writing text that is not code, or code that wants some empty lines here and there for some reason, this can be annoying. I propose that there should be an option to turn off the cleanup of empty trailing lines when using the extract command, so that selected empty lines are part of the cold node being created. (Steve please notice Rob is talking about trailing empty lines. not trailing whitespace at the end of lines containing some text.) Thanks again - and yeah. maybe fill an issue on github for that :) -- Félix On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 4:27 PM Rob <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > What meaning could possibly be assigned to trailing whitespace? What >> purpose could trailing whitespace have? > > > The trailing white space serves a very specific purpose for me. I'm not > writing computer code, I'm writing documents. After running my script, I > have to manually go in and add back the blank lines between sections > (paragraphs, etc.) > > >> Wouldn't there be a >> better way of signifying whatever is intended than trailing >> whitespace you can't visually detect? >> > > The whitespace is clearly visible by its absence after it's been stripped > out. Perhaps for coding, that's desirable (don't know as I don't code > much), for documents, I need white space between paragraphs and sections, > especially how I'm using it, needing visual separation for easier reading > while giving a presentation. > > >> Apropos to nothing but a strong opinion I have, what's worse than >> trailing whitespace is the mixing of spaces and tabs. Because >> there's no visual way to tell the difference, and the games Vim >> and other editors play in converting between the two, mixing spaces and >> tabs is a horror movie just waiting to happen. >> > > I agree with this and don't use tabs, just spaces. > > Rob... > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/eb666ced-e825-4787-98b4-10a6535d0d13n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/eb666ced-e825-4787-98b4-10a6535d0d13n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAC%3DZVRLddZABoAXbPrVuwLTZtP2-fKczk4-PJO5GetszbtPd4w%40mail.gmail.com.
