* `forward-sentence' broken?
@ 2013-09-26 15:38 Frederik
2013-09-26 15:47 ` Yuri Khan
2013-09-26 16:08 ` Andreas Röhler
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From: Frederik @ 2013-09-26 15:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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 )
--
Frederik
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* Re: `forward-sentence' broken?
2013-09-26 15:38 `forward-sentence' broken? Frederik
@ 2013-09-26 15:47 ` Yuri Khan
2013-09-26 15:52 ` Frederik
2013-09-26 16:08 ` Andreas Röhler
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From: Yuri Khan @ 2013-09-26 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Frederik; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Frederik <freak.fred@gmail.com> wrote:
> at least for me the behaviour of the `forward-sentence' function
> (normally bound to M-e) in GNU Emacs doesn't work right.
> sociology. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl
Your Emacs is configured to consider sentences to be separated by a
period followed by two spaces. That is the default. Set the variable
“sentence-end-double-space” to nil.
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* Re: `forward-sentence' broken?
2013-09-26 15:38 `forward-sentence' broken? Frederik
2013-09-26 15:47 ` Yuri Khan
@ 2013-09-26 16:08 ` Andreas Röhler
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From: Andreas Röhler @ 2013-09-26 16:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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.
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@ 2013-09-26 15:43 ` Dan Espen
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From: Dan Espen @ 2013-09-26 15:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Frederik <freak.fred@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
Go here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sentences.html
Specifically:
The sentence commands assume that you follow the American typist's
convention of putting two spaces at the end of a sentence.
--
Dan Espen
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