Minor Modes Hungry-deletion of whitespace

4.1: Auto-newline insertion

Auto-newline minor mode works by enabling certain electric commands. Electric commands are typically bound to special characters such as the left and right braces, colons, semi-colons, etc., which when typed, perform some magic formatting in addition to inserting the typed character. As a general rule, electric commands are only electric when the following conditions apply:

• Auto-newline minor mode is enabled, as evidenced by a `C/a' or `C/ah' indicator on the modeline.
• The character was not typed inside of a literal [1].
• No numeric argument was supplied to the command (i.e. it was typed as normal, with no C-u prefix).

[1] A literal is defined as any comment, string, or C preprocessor macro definition. These constructs are also known as syntactic whitespace since they are usually ignored when scanning C code.

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Hungry-deletion of whitespace