From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `forward-sentence' broken? Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:43:54 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380210318 2771 80.91.229.3 (26 Sep 2013 15:45:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:45:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 26 17:45:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPDkj-0006uu-Lj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:45:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58546 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPDkj-0006Fr-Ak for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:45:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5d070289bfddab8debea427f21ca33d2"; logging-data="24401"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Af4v0W2AE1nitKMDawCKj8o4SbVOuYBU=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZvKZzsfTpls0bbSdqppo15VqYMM= sha1:6zpt73PSCXvsHKAdVVCcmNp6rbs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201341 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93611 Archived-At: Frederik 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