From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: filling bug in text-mode
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:22:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85y850frgr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EP7NM-0003Fq-HE@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:48:12 -0400")
"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
Why? A single period can signify a part of an abbreviation, like in
Richard M. Stallman, but I can't see three periods doing the same.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-11 7:22 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
2005-10-11 22:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-14 11:42 ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-11 7:22 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-10-11 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-11 22:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
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