From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: filling bug in text-mode
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:31:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1x2s1626.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85y850frgr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:22:28 +0200")
>> 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.
IIRC the problem is what to do when filling
foo bar...
baz
Should it turn into
foo bar... baz
or
foo bar... baz
By making "bar... baz" unbreakable we make sure that we can always choose
the second option.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-11 14:31 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
2005-10-11 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-10-11 22:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
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