From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `forward-sentence' broken? Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:08:46 +0200 Message-ID: <52445C0E.6080709@easy-emacs.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380211628 20342 80.91.229.3 (26 Sep 2013 16:07:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:07:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 26 18:07:11 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPE5s-0003pd-Dj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:07:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58769 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPE5r-0004V7-Sz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47872) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPE5T-0004Ut-FE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPE5N-0000em-GS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:06:43 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:59707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPE5N-0000eZ-66 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from purzel.sitgens (brln-4db9ef2e.pool.mediaWays.net [77.185.239.46]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LzneB-1Vuvpg3Eqx-014gOs; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:06:36 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:cvDEQZp8iAUN3bNUnTCqptKKrwuztcs/D0CZNMLphGz 2mgwIj28zbnYktNBhgSLjHnemNRMOn0Z5FDPVHqbyczBiplEM0 qZO/Pdr/Dj2WbGdYjawWTA8/8rdw0ygrQ2tfOy6kMC0GxCYxcV NkkTdR5q5GO+irzFW+p3ItjMtz1udQ9JLdP5jI2ahIWXMEzd/e gw07THXcnQ8PTLOE4R23/XgnQMW0F9YYZE0CLkjGZm/+IHuA+T R9IPnk22t9x0CITPDtL36Wf4yBg9wPAAnkuurgyu6PFhAWUwEX M5ll/PocfN4Th9hiiSSwo44CzFrYQbwtFhAIbuYbBE8mLHZAMO tmI/nLGsmzUCyVUNrNdjgvmHMYsz7WaE4im1vcCmk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93615 Archived-At: Am 26.09.2013 17:38, schrieb Frederik: > Hello there, > at least for me the behaviour of the `forward-sentence' function > (normally bound to M-e) in GNU Emacs doesn't work right. > > After pasting the following paragraph to a buffer > -------------------------------------------------------- > Maximilian Karl Emil "Max" Weber was a German sociologist, > philosopher, and political economist whose ideas influenced > social theory, social research, and the entire discipline of > sociology. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl > Marx, as among the three founding architects of sociology. > -------------------------------------------------------- > > I place the cursor to the beginning of the paragraph, i.e. just before > "Maximilian". Then pressing M-e brings the cursor to the end of the > paragraph. But the intended behaviour is to bring the cursor to the end > of the first sentence, i.e. after the first "sociology", right before > "Weber", isn't it? Is this a bug I should report? > I tried this after starting up emacs by > $ emacs -Q > Emacs version 24.3.1 on Arch Linux. > > Regards > > (also posted on the Arch Linux forums: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170403 ) > Sentence end is expressed by two spaces following a period. Kind of semi-standard in computing AFAIK. Otherwise it's hard to discriminate if from abbreviations and other symbols inside. Maybe exists an emacs library providing this for singlespaced textes? Being interested also.