From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should M-SPC respect `sentence-end-double-space'? Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:52:22 +0900 Message-ID: <87skzkjxyx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87lk5ch6l3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ir0gh54a.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203727966 2341 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2008 00:52:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:52:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 23 01:53:10 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 1JSidZ-0005F4-Cw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:53:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSid4-0006YU-3E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:52:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSid1-0006X5-3R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:52:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSicz-0006VK-M0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:52:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSicz-0006VH-Jt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:52:33 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSics-0005h4-44; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:52:26 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-97-013.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.97.13] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1JSicp-0005Dc-MB; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:52:23 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6A6052FF7; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:52:22 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87ir0gh54a.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:46:13 +0900") Original-Lines: 22 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 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:90079 Archived-At: "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... Anyway, if you like double-spaces (as I do), it's very convenient as-is for use after a sentence: ESC SPC SPC [I use this command a lot, and only occasionally does it happen to be at the end of a sentence.] -Miles -- The key to happiness is having dreams. [from a fortune cookie]