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From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
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Subject: Re: TeX mode in GNU-Emacs
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Date: 14 Oct 89 22:47:55 GMT
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In-reply-to: slj@mtung.ATT.COM's message of 10 Oct 89 15:53:33 GMT

TeX already does what you want.  From plain.tex (or lplain.tex for
LaTeX):

\def\^^M{\ } % control <return> = control <space>
\def\^^I{\ } % same for <tab>

So "\" followed by a newline or tab is the same as "\" followed by
space.  (Also don't worry that newline is ^J on Unix; it is translated
to ^M before the rest of TeX sees it, so that TeX behaves the same on
all systems.)

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Joe Weening                                Computer Science Dept.
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU          Stanford University