RE: [External] : Q2 -

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> Commands "forward-sentence" and "backward-sentence" do not move by
> sentences actually. I tried in both Text and Fundamental modes. If there
> are two or more sentences in a line, they ignore the dot in the middle.
> I guess it is somehow connected with an internal mode's settings (what
> is considered to be a sentence). But it seems logical that when I'm in a
> Text mode, a literary sentence should be treated as sentence, where a
> dot sign (or ? or ! and so on) is a delimiter.
> 
> How can I tell Emacs to treat sentences as literary sentences? At least
> in a Text mode.

Probably you have only one space character after the punctuation ending a sentence.  If so, and if you want to continue to do that, then customize user option `sentence-end-double-space' to give it the value `nil'.  Use `M-x customize-option' to do that.


`C-h v' tells you this:

sentence-end-double-space is a variable defined in `paragraphs.el'.

Its value is t

  This variable is safe as a file local variable if its value
  satisfies the predicate `booleanp'.

Documentation:
Non-nil means a single space does not end a sentence.
This is relevant for filling.  See also `sentence-end-without-period'
and `colon-double-space'.

This value is used by the function `sentence-end' to construct the
regexp describing the end of a sentence, when the value of the variable
`sentence-end' is nil.  See Info node `(elisp)Standard Regexps'.

You can customize this variable.