From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:23:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831uhoh9kv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8W=HuP90p5qCFO33mC=LHzWTLy_L6GrzrC7xRDs7JFntQ@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:44:54 +0700
> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Cc: Tom Kramer <kramer@cme.nist.gov>,
> "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Differentiating between end-of-sentence full stop and in-sentence
> period by the number of spaces is an artifact of pre-Unicode
> typography. When the only available space was the ASCII 0x20, it made
> sense. Now it doesn’t, as we have the U+0020 SPACE, the U+00A0
> NON-BREAKING SPACE, and the U+2009/U+200A THIN SPACE and HAIR SPACE,
> respectively, as well as other fixed-width spaces.
But in the real world, there's still a lot of text with 2 spaces
between sentences, and Emacs needs to DTRT with that. An editor
cannot throw in the towel when it bumps into text that uses two
spaces.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-26 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-26 10:56 line adjustment at the end of a sentence T.F. Torrey
2012-09-26 12:00 ` Tom Kramer
2012-09-26 17:12 ` Ludwig, Mark
2012-09-26 17:44 ` Yuri Khan
2012-09-26 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-09-26 17:50 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.9789.1348681498.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-09-27 0:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-27 5:26 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-27 12:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-27 14:57 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-27 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-27 17:00 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.9862.1348765244.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-09-27 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.9790.1348681903.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-09-26 20:35 ` Barry Margolin
2012-09-27 3:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-09-29 14:09 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
[not found] ` <mailman.9978.1348927764.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-09-29 17:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-14 1:21 ` David Combs
2012-10-14 15:58 ` Joe Fineman
2012-10-14 18:13 ` PJ Weisberg
[not found] ` <mailman.10975.1350238417.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-11-25 1:05 ` David Combs
2012-12-02 3:03 ` J. David Boyd
2012-10-19 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] <mailman.9731.1348608357.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-09-25 21:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-09-25 21:25 Tom Kramer
2012-09-25 21:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-25 23:28 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-09-25 12:54 Tom Kramer
2012-09-25 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-25 18:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-09-25 21:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-09-25 21:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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