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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "split-sentences"?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:46:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kj77dhb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20210123131055.GA11154@tuxteam.de

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 10:35:51AM +0100, moasenwood--- via Users list
> for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>> tomas wrote:
>> 
>> > Not exactly your result, but this comes close:
>
> [...]
>
>> > You can adjust the results by tweaking the regexp (try word
>> > boundaries like '\<' and '\>'
>> 
>> *scratches my head*
>
> A candidate for a sentence boundary is a word boundary
> (plus some other conditions). This was at least my thought
> process leading to that suggestion. It might be a bad
> suggestion, though.

You can see what Emacs thinks would make a good sentence boundary with
the (sentence-end) function.




  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-23 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-23  5:10 "split-sentences"? moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-23  6:38 ` "split-sentences"? moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-23  8:41   ` "split-sentences"? tomas
2021-01-23  9:07     ` "split-sentences"? Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-23  9:32       ` "split-sentences"? moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-23  9:48       ` "split-sentences"? Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24  0:39         ` "split-sentences"? Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-23  9:35     ` "split-sentences"? moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-23 13:10       ` "split-sentences"? tomas
2021-01-23 17:46         ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2021-01-23 20:56           ` "split-sentences"? tomas

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