GNU bug report logs - #51586
27.2; Customize inserts trailing-space empty lines in doc string

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 14:09:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 27.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 51586 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 51586 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#51586: 27.2; Customize inserts trailing-space empty lines
 in doc string
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 19:06:04 +0100

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> Isn't it sort of nice that the user can put point at the "S" here
>
>    Several possibilities:
>
>    * ‘xxx’ - yyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyyyyyy
>
>    * ‘yyy’ - zzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz
>
> and then hit `C-n' without having the cursor jump from column 0 to
> column 4?  Neither way seems obviously better to me.

I think indenting this "rigidly" makes the most sense here -- i.e., not
indenting the blank lines is slightly worse.  So I'm closing this bug report.

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