Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Re: inclusive-linewise: Is the help topic wrong?

Erik Christiansen wrote:

> On 10.02.16 10:33, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> > Maybe "there is nothing but blanks" or "there are zero or more
> > blanks"? And I suppose "blanks" means "whitespace characters" (spaces
> > or tabs) here?
>
> Is it simpler to understand "there are no non-blank characters"?
> A single category is a minimally complex statement of the
> case, but the first above is incomplete.

Even though it's a double negative, "no non-blank characters" seems
best.

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