Re: Looking for some examples

[Emanuel Berg]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

> Patrick Mahan wrote:
>
>> I am converting these all to inline functions and already
>> have some emacs lisp code written to handle converting
>> everything but the backslashes. I would like to remove the
>> backslashes, but I do not want to leave all that empty
>> whitespace behind. Is there a way to do this using
>> query-replace-regexp that also removes the whitespace?
>
> ;; (setq before-save-hook nil)
> (defun before-save-hook-f ()
>   (untab-all)
>   (delete-trailing-whitespace) )
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook #'before-save-hook-f)

Also see `whitespace-cleanup'.

As for your question ... can't you just add [[:space:]]* to
the regexp that matches the backslash and have all of
it removed?

Maybe better to just save the buffer still ...

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