[Erc-help] Dealing with blank lines

[Pascal J.B. <pj...@in...>]

Brian Palmer writes:
> I believe that the current behaviour dealing with sending whitespace
> only lines is broken when dealing with sending input that contains
> newlines. This has been fairly embarrassing in the past when pasting
> code into irc, for example, and I know it's struck some other people
> :-)
> 
> I'm proposing the following patch, which will change the behaviour to
> allow switching between sending no whitespace-only lines, sending only
> whitespace-only lines that are not the beginning or ending, and
> sending every whitespace-only line, with it defaulting to the second
> case. (I suppose ideally it would collapse together multiple leading
> or trailing lines, but the code does not currently do so ). 
> 
> I'm asking for opinions as to whether all three of those options
> should be present, whether more should be added, and if so, what the
> default would be. (I don't foresee a tremendous use for the 'middle
> behaviour myself (I plan on setting it to nil and keeping it there),
> but some others on the channel thought it'd be useful, and be a
> reasonable default).
> 
> Depending on feedback, I'll probably commit this tomorrow. 

While you're at it, trim spaces on the left (and right) to avoid
sending /commands to the channel just because there's some space at
the beginnning.

But don't space-trim pasted multi-lines.  An option for pasted lines
would be to prefix the lines with a "quote" string such as "| " or ">
" (to avoid problems when pasting //comments for example).

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