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: Spaces after periods Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:30:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87wprx9n7q.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20151212115202.16784.72345@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83poy82xe0.fsf@gnu.org> <834mfj36ij.fsf@gnu.org> <83vb7y1yqg.fsf@gnu.org> <83oadq1wdq.fsf@gnu.org> <8360zrsoct.fsf@gnu.org> <83poxuli6m.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9j1dwcu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451410247 15445 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2015 17:30:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:30:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Shakthi Kannan , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 29 18:30:41 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aDy6Z-0006RD-TU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:30:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49492 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDy6Z-00005X-71 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:30:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49466) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDy6W-00005R-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:30:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDy6V-0001hH-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:30:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59420) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDy6U-0001gu-BZ; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:30:34 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55849 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aDy6T-0003xh-Oi; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:30:33 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 57A7FDF87C; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:30:33 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:05:18 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:197108 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: >>>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes: > >>> +with the Greek lambda character @samp{=CE=BB}. In a TeX buffer, it will >> ^^ ^^^ >> Two spaces between sentences, please (we use the US English >> conventions). > > I almost hate to say this, but I'm not sure this is the English > convention anymore. It is the Emacs convention, however, making it possible for Emacs to distinguish abbreviations from sentence ends when wrapping lines. It is modelled after the conventions for _typewriters_. Typewriting fonts are monospace, and as a text editor rather than a word processor, typical Emacs usage involves quite a bit of monospace fonts. > A quick Google shows many, many sites that indicate that the modern > convention is now one space, and none that recommend two spaces. I suspect that it's more of a "trust your word processor to figure out the proper spacing" thing. > I've even changed to one space in my e-mails, even, after being a long > holdout for the two space rule. Well, Emacs does not wrap lines nicely with single spaces. You can, of course, customize sentence-end-double-space. But then Emacs can no longer distinguish sentence ends from abbreviations reliably. --=20 David Kastrup