From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: filling bug in text-mode Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:34:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <20051011.063411.71091056.wl@gnu.org> References: <87psqdhq7n.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129005537 22136 80.91.229.2 (11 Oct 2005 04:38:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 11 06:38:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPBs5-0001Ht-UP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:36:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPBs5-00017I-Ag for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:36:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EPBrM-0000hx-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:35:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EPBrK-0000er-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPBrK-0000el-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.177] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EPBrJ-0004hU-Df; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:35:25 -0400 Original-Received: from p54AFA60E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.175.166.14] (helo=rigel.site) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwpI-1EPBrH3hRZ-0002IG; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:35:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rigel.site (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id j9B4YBFu004838; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:34:11 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.50 on Emacs 22.0.50.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:2dc398bc694a1e60948148ba0a42c0da X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:43852 Archived-At: > 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