From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should M-SPC respect `sentence-end-double-space'? Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:01:01 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <877igvtzfe.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87lk5ch6l3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ir0gh54a.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87skzkjxyx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203786134 31263 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2008 17:02:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:02:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 23 18:02:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JSxlf-0008Ui-3e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:02:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSxl9-0003mS-AC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:01:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSxl2-0003jq-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSxl0-0003ig-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:01:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSxl0-0003iU-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:01:50 -0500 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSxks-0003td-83; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:01:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JSxkj-0000mV-68; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:01:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87skzkjxyx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:52:22 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 69470ef176344869aa12c1af2e75e870 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2291 [Feb 22 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 11 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:90125 Archived-At: >> > M-SPC is an important Emacs command, >> >> Oh, yeah, that reminds me of an occasional wish: should M-SPC respect >> `sentence-end-double-space'? It currently doesn't, but it sort of >> feels like a filling command to me. If this has been tried and >> failed, or there are strong intuitions against, I'd like to know. > > Why should it? It's a command for inserting a single space, not a > command for inserting whitespace-following-end-of-sentence... Maybe there should be an option in text modes to insert two spaces on typing SPC or M-SPC at the end of a sentence when`sentence-end-double-space' is non-nil. This means remapping SPC and M-SPC to some new command. > Anyway, if you like double-spaces (as I do), it's very convenient as-is > for use after a sentence: ESC SPC SPC I also use `M-2 M-SPC' (three keystrokes). > [I use this command a lot, and only occasionally does it happen to be at > the end of a sentence.] In one of the older versions of KDE, M-SPC was captured by Katapult, and it was not possible to redefine it. I believe this is fixed in the latest version of KDE. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/