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From: Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `forward-sentence' broken?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:43:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <icioxnoaf9.fsf@home.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2921.1380209927.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

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


       reply	other threads:[~2013-09-26 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2921.1380209927.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 15:43 ` Dan Espen [this message]
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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