Subject: bug#29013: 25.3; [wishlist] do not yank whitespace

From: Alex Branham <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:40:13 -0500

It would be nice to have an option so that yank never returns pure whitespace. The current behavior is such that if we have:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
some text here

some text there|
#+END_EXAMPLE

with | representing where point is, if you execute C-SPC C-a M-w C-p C-k C-p C-y then you end up with:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE

some text here
some text there
#+END_EXAMPLE

but I would like to end up with:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
some text there
some text here
some text there
#+END_EXAMPLE

Thanks,
Alex

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