From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: forward-sentence Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 19:24:42 +0100 Message-ID: <01167E6E-364B-4236-9EEF-3B23BD487D17@Web.DE> References: <87mxohebyh.fsf@gmail.com> <6FF78CCB447642FCBA37723C5C6345C0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291746350 23630 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2010 18:25:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Sean Sieger' , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 07 19:25:45 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ2ER-0006Ki-Ku for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:25:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56953 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQ2ER-0003JF-65 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:25:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49318 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQ2E4-0003J0-CG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:25:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ2E3-0002Ek-FH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:25:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:41538) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ2E3-0002ET-4p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:25:19 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp01.web.de ( [172.20.0.243]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4FA9180D9BDB; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 19:24:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [91.35.182.147] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp01.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #24) id 1PQ2DT-0000KM-00; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:24:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: <6FF78CCB447642FCBA37723C5C6345C0@us.oracle.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18XedNGhiNM3LAtKVuV5WbqnLS0Hx+TYqJii5FJ 0Czg8fgPWQjlJaQdPy7g0D3aZJRR2T/yz1GH+7DhdOXaL2e/9e dY/eWUEI4lTLTG22SErQ== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75537 Archived-At: 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.