* Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?
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@ 2008-02-13 17:36 ` Bastien
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From: Bastien @ 2008-02-13 17:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
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David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:
> On 13 Feb 2008, at 17:27, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
AFAIK having two spaces at the end of sentences is an english
typesetting convention.
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Bastien
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