From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 50731@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50731: `progress-reporter-update' docstring and `backward-sexp' interaction
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:47:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mto3vile.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmksoemh-rffc+1Dyh_pYuspfbEV4WUb=P5-MW-F7Q4jYQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:12:08 -0700)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:12:08 -0700
> Cc: 50731@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Once again, why does checkdoc want you to have 2 spaces there? what
> > rule is it that ends up requiring that?
>
> Sorry, I didn't understand you were asking about checkdoc.
Because you said:
> This in turn leads to checkdoc flagging this as a mistake, and asks you
> to put two spaces after dot.
I read this as the issue you'd like to solve: to prevent checkdoc from
flagging this as a mistake. Was I misinterpreting your report?
> The code
> there is really simple: find the next dot (that is also at a word
> boundary), run `backward-sexp', use a regexp to see if this is an
> abbreviation.
>
> So it lands on the "r" in "reporter---i.e." and says, no, this is not an
> abbreviation I know about
Isn't _that_ a bug, right there? Why does checkdoc use this strange
strategy for identifying abbreviations? A punctuation character that
precedes an abbreviation shouldn't interfere with recognizing the
abbreviation, IMO. And using sexp movements in text that is not
really a sexp is perhaps "the original sin" here?
IOW, I see no reason whatsoever to believe backward-sexp is the
problem here. The problem is in checkdoc, and IMO should be solved
there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-23 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-22 6:52 bug#50731: `progress-reporter-update' docstring and `backward-sexp' interaction Stefan Kangas
2021-09-22 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-22 22:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-23 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-23 7:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-23 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-09-23 9:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-23 20:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-22 20:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-22 22:12 ` Stefan Kangas
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