From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: filling bug in text-mode Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:22:28 +0200 Message-ID: <85y850frgr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20051005.224026.229265335.wl@gnu.org> <878xx5m16r.fsf@jurta.org> <8764s7i93p.fsf@jurta.org> <87psqdhq7n.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129015503 12511 80.91.229.2 (11 Oct 2005 07:25:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:25:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 11 09:25:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPEV1-0002q5-TZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:24:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPEV1-0003ct-9j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:24:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EPET8-0002bv-9Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:22:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EPET7-0002bQ-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:22:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPET6-0002bE-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EPET6-0005dK-N9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EPESz-0005Ht-Fy; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:22:29 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 50AF91C4CD7B; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:22:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:48:12 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:43856 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" 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