backslash whitespace newline

Tue Oct 25 01:59:00 GMT 2005

On 2005-10-25 07:52:36 +0900, Neil Booth wrote:
> Howard Hinnant wrote:-
> > I've been reviewing the age-old issue of interpreting  
> > <whitespace>*<newline> as the end-of-line indicator as is the current  
> > practice with gcc.
> 
> FWIW I support abandoning this behaviour too.

But then, copy-paste would no longer always work since spaces are
sometimes added at the end of some lines (depending on the terminal
and the context).

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