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
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next prev 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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