From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: filling bug in text-mode
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:34:11 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051011.063411.71091056.wl@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EP7NM-0003Fq-HE@fencepost.gnu.org>
> The patch below fixes the bug. It assumes that more than one
> successive periods should allow breaking even if they are
> followed by just one space.
>
> That's not correct--it SHOULD demand two spaces or a newline, after
> three periods, just as it does after one period.
This was my first reaction too, but after some thinking I can't
imagine a situation where you *really* want to prevent a line break
after two or periods. The very reason to suppress line breaking is
only to have a correct handling of abbreviated names like J. User.
IMHO we should consider the case `period/question mark/exclamation
mark + single space' as the exception which prevents a break, and
everything else should allow it. Doing the opposite (this is,
always insist on two spaces after those punctuation marks) appears
unnatural to me.
Werner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-11 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-05 20:40 filling bug in text-mode Werner LEMBERG
2005-10-07 21:52 ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-08 22:57 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-09 6:06 ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-10 4:14 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-10 6:14 ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-10 13:44 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-10-10 23:48 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-11 4:34 ` Werner LEMBERG [this message]
2005-10-11 22:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-14 11:42 ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-11 7:22 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-11 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-11 22:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
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