On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:38:49AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > But I've just thought: why are we deleting paragraphs at all ? Is there > > any good reason we can't strip empty paragraphs on save/export ? > > Because of the age-old "We don't allow empty paragraphs" mantra.
A-ha ! Religious reasons ! > I personally would have no problems with disallowing only two empty pars in > a row and cleaning on save/export. Actually I find it sometimes pretty > annoying if an empty par vanishes just because I move the cursor > somewhere else to cut a piece of text I want to insert in the empty par... That is *exactly* the case I meant by UI issues. And also the fact that an empty paragraph is a useful visual anchor for finding where you were (and we can live with the cost of that not being saved out any more) john
