From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should M-SPC respect `sentence-end-double-space'? Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:11:11 +0900 Message-ID: <878x1cgyeo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> 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 1203735861 20438 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2008 03:04:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:04:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 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 04:04:45 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 1JSkgs-00019Z-8x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:04:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSkgM-0008OD-Fu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:04:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSkgH-0008Mw-BW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:04:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSkgF-0008L7-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:04:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSkgF-0008Ky-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:04:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSkg8-0006nA-GQ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:03:56 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B8FE1535A8; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:03:54 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 447971A29E5; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:11:12 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87skzkjxyx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 42711a251efd XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:90093 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > > 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... I didn't specify a command, I specified a keystroke. > Anyway, if you like double-spaces (as I do), it's very convenient as-is > for use after a sentence: ESC SPC SPC My use case is in kbd macros: C-x ( C-s SPC SPC M-SPC C-x ), for example. > [I use this command a lot, and only occasionally does it happen to be at > the end of a sentence.] Exactly! Only occasionally would my proposal affect behavior.