Talk:Whitespace (computer science)
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[edit] Backspace
Is backspace a whitespace character? 206.130.170.11 20:05, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Revision history
The revision history of this article prior to October 20, 2005 can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whitespace&action=history. — mjb 22:43, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Emacs' show-trailing-whitespace
Mention in GNU emacs, show-trailing-whitespace can make one whitespace-aware, vs. one's colorblind co-workers. --jidanni
[edit] sense?
Either this passage:
- As is common in technical literature, the two words "white space" have found widespread usage as the single term "whitespace", especially when used as an adjective, as in "whitespace character". Some specifications refer to "white space" while others refer to "whitespace"; there is no difference between the terms, although exactly which characters are being referred to does vary from context to context. For example, in HTML, "whitespace" includes the form feed character, while in XML, "white space" does not.
needs revision, or it is very witty. In the last sentence, does "white space" in HTML include the form feed character, then? Does "whitespace" in XML? --Hugh7 03:01, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Propose renaming
I think, "white-space character" would be a much better title for this article than "white-space (computer science)". Firstly, article titles with disambiguation parentheses are very tedious to link to and should be avoided where an unambiguous term exists. Secondly, this is not really a computer science term; researchers don't write many academic papers about whitespace. I propose moving to "white-space character". Markus Kuhn (talk) 11:51, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
