[m-dev.] Contribution: Pretty Printing Library

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-Apr-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Something else that would be nice would be providing a way
> > to insert something at the end of every line.  This would
> > be useful for formatting code in languages such as `sh',
> > `sed', or `make' that use line continuation characters
> > (e.g. trailing backslash).
> 
> Agh!  It was nice and simple.  It's growing hairy!  But you're
> right...

Well, that feature doesn't need to be in version one.
If it is easy to implement, then it is certainly worth
having, but if it complicates things a lot then it would
be fine to just document it as a wishlist item.

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