Re: How to format paragraph and not to lose spaces between 2 characters?

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 12:24:13PM +0200, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> Jean Louis wrote:
> 
> >> The ‘fill-nobreak-predicate’ hook lets you avoid line
> >> breaks at certain places. For example if you’re French, you
> >> might be used to typing a space in front of colons,
> >> question marks, exclamation marks, etc. This might lead to
> >> the following problem:
> >
> > If I have ❰    ❱ then what should I add to
> > `fill-nobreak-predicate' variable?
> 
> If you have NO-BREAK SPACE it shouldn't brake anyway (that's
> the purpose) so then you can just fill as you
> would, transparently.
> 
> If you want it to be 100% transparent so you can use normal
> spaces (but why?) I'd start at something like this
> 
>   (looking-at "\s\\{2,\\}")
                 ^^

Alternatively you could say "\\s-..." instead, which would catch
everything with the syntax property "space", which non-breaking
spaces usually have (it'll depend on your current syntax table,
though, which can be seen as a plus or as a minus).

Cheers
 - t

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