From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Paragraphs (and sentences) in Emacs cannot span pages. Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:54:54 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126023366 8727 80.91.229.2 (6 Sep 2005 16:16:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 06 18:16:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECg4p-0000Vn-DJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:13:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECg9K-0001w0-1l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:18:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ECg6g-0001NZ-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ECg6f-0001NN-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECg1P-0008Qt-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.149.49.134] (helo=acm.acm) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ECfmG-0004b7-Rn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:54:29 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by acm.acm (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA00225 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:54:54 GMT X-Sender: root@acm.acm Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org 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:42658 Archived-At: 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)