From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Sean Sieger' <sean.sieger@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: forward-sentence
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 19:24:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01167E6E-364B-4236-9EEF-3B23BD487D17@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6FF78CCB447642FCBA37723C5C6345C0@us.oracle.com>
Am 07.12.2010 um 18:59 schrieb Drew Adams:
> This regexp shows that "end of
> sentence" includes any whitespace after the punctuation, so "to next
> end of
> sentence" is strictly correct here. But I would still think that
> "past" would
> be better than "to" here, relying on an ordinary, informal
> understanding of "end
> of sentence", which does not include trailing whitespace.
It's almost a function "next-sentence". I would also prefer a variant
which ends the jump before the symbol that signals the end of a
sentence ([.!?]). (I certainly need to edit the text more often than
this mark. What happens when the actual sentence ends with one of many
possible quotation marks?)
--
Greetings
Pete
Hard Disk, n.:
A device that allows users to delete vast quantities of data with
simple mnemonic commands.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-07 17:20 forward-sentence Sean Sieger
2010-12-07 17:59 ` forward-sentence Drew Adams
2010-12-07 18:24 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2010-12-07 18:39 ` forward-sentence Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.21.1291855209.22010.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-10 18:58 ` forward-sentence Ilya Zakharevich
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