Re: M-k

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <mailman.1944.1246912627.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> wrote:

> In 29.2 of the GNU/Emacs Manual,
> 
>    The sentence commands assume that you follow the American typist's
> convention of putting two spaces at the end of a sentence; they consider
> a sentence to end wherever there is a `.', `?' or `!' followed by the
> end of a line or two spaces, with any number of `)', `]', `'', or `"'
> characters allowed in between.

If you set sentence-end-double-space to nil, a single space after the 
period is enough.  The problem with this is that it can't tell the 
difference between the period used in an abbreviation and the period 
that ends a sentence.  E.g. "Mr. Spock." is two sentences.

> 
> Is there any `cure' for when I'm editing arguments in a LaTeX file and I
> want to use either `M-k' or `C-x <DEL>'?
> 
> Take
> 
> \begin{environment}[This is the sentence I want to kill.]{and so on}
> 
> for example, I get this:
> 
> \begin{environment}[
> 
> right?  Any suggestions?

I don't know of a way to recognize sentences that don't have ANY space 
after them, other than customizing the variable sentence-end-regexp 
directly.

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