From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Subject: Paragraphs (and sentences) in Emacs cannot span pages.
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:54:54 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1050906154231.222A-100000@acm.acm> (raw)
Hi, Emacs!
In printed material, sentences and paragraphs can (and frequently do)
start on one page and finish on the next.
In Emacs, in Fundamental mode and even in Text mode, the default values of
paragraph-s\(tart\|eparate\) include a ^L, thus chopping paragraphs (and,
indirectly, sentences) into two at page boundaries. So, for example, in
the following:
This sentence goes over from one page
^L
to the next.
, M-a, M-e don't do what somebody used to reading dead trees might expect.
Neither do M-{ and M-}.
Is this really the Right Thing?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
next reply other threads:[~2005-09-06 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-06 15:54 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2005-09-06 17:17 ` Paragraphs (and sentences) in Emacs cannot span pages Stefan Monnier
2005-09-06 18:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-09-07 10:00 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-07 5:05 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-07 7:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-09-08 2:41 ` Richard M. Stallman
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