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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: auto-fill breaks line too early
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:25:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-822C92.08254718102012@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.11206.1350549236.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

In article <mailman.11206.1350549236.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> the doc of `fill-paragraph' reveals the mystery:
> 
> | If `sentence-end-double-space' is non-nil, then period followed by one
> | space does not end a sentence, so don't break a line there.
> 
> The default value is t. So, no, it's not a bug.  Customize
> `sentence-end-double-space' to nil to change the behavior.

And if you want to understand the rationale for this, see a very similar 
thread from 3-4 weeks ago.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-18 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-18  8:12 auto-fill breaks line too early mandar.mitra
2012-10-18  8:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-10-18  8:34 ` Teemu Likonen
2012-10-18 12:30   ` Mandar Mitra
2012-10-18  8:40 ` Tassilo Horn
     [not found] ` <mailman.11206.1350549236.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-10-18 12:25   ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2012-11-25  1:27   ` David Combs
2012-11-25  3:05     ` Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <mailman.13738.1353812732.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-12-08  0:50       ` David Combs

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