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a better M-SPC

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Message #14 received at 15821 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Toomas Rosin <toomas <at> rosin.ee>, 15821 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#15821: a better M-SPC
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:24:18 +0100

On Jan 21 2020, Stefan Kangas wrote:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> Reading your docstring, I see the following changes:
>> 1- On a non-empty blank line, leave exactly ARG spaces on it (without
>>    ARG, make it empty).
>
> M-SPC has until now always left one space by default.  I think the
> proposal would make for a very frustrating and confusing user
> experience.  Changing it is also backwards incompatible.

Given the name of the function, leaving no space when called without
prefix would be a contradiction.

There is also cycle-spacing.

Andreas.

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