From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:36:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzlu4sijk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <692473D9-ADB4-4485-ADA7-B46DF6CCCD9E@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:32:45 +0000")
>>> Maybe I misunderstand the purpose of this function, but `forward-
>>> sentence' doesn't work for me. It always jumps to the end of the
>>> paragraph
>>> rather than to the end of the sentence.
>>
>> You need to set sentence-end-double-space to nil.
> That works. Why is this variable not nil by default?
The problem is that "half the world" doesn't know that "the other half"
uses 2-spaces after a ".". So the docstring of
sentence-end-double-space should probably explain that this is
a convention used throughout North America (AFAICT).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-13 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-13 17:08 paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work? David Reitter
2008-02-13 17:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-02-13 17:32 ` David Reitter
2008-02-13 20:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-14 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-14 9:45 ` David Reitter
2008-02-14 14:22 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-02-14 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-14 15:52 ` David Reitter
2008-02-14 16:04 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-15 5:48 ` Jonathan Rockway
2008-06-13 14:14 ` David Reitter
2008-02-15 0:02 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-14 9:10 ` David Reitter
2008-02-14 9:22 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-14 9:46 ` David Reitter
2008-02-14 10:07 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-14 10:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-14 12:27 ` David Reitter
2008-02-14 22:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-13 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-02-13 20:52 ` Thorsten Bonow
2008-02-13 23:06 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-14 2:18 ` Robert J. Chassell
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