From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto-fill breaks line too early Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:27:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <7c540f57-66b9-410b-92f2-66d7327480aa@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353807014 14403 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2012 01:30:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:30:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 25 02:30:26 2012 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 1TcR3B-0006Hr-0w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:30:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52582 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcR30-0003ty-1l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:30:14 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1353806860 23550 166.84.1.2 (25 Nov 2012 01:27:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:27:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:195567 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:87889 Archived-At: In article , Michael Heerdegen 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. > > >Michael. So I guess the oft-used M-x delete-trailing-whitespace screws up any use of M-q? Emacs is so dwim-intelligent about so many things that it's a surprise to me that a period (or ! or ?, etc) meant to end a sentence line requires two spaces, which is fine in the middle of a line, would still obtain at the end of a line. Perhaps in that double-space mode the emacs user could avoid ending a line with a period UNLESS that period was to mean "end of sentence". Like, he'd have to teach himself to never end a line with a mid-sentence abbreviation. And he'd never get into that mode except by deliberately invoking it, plus when he did enter that mode a message would flash up warning him about how NOT to end a line. --- Question: do other emacs users find delete-trailing-whitespace useful? Crazy idea? Maybe in that two-spaces mode, delete-trailing-whitespace would know to NOT remove two spaces following a sentence-ender? A problem, all this. David PS: And oh, yes, I very much like the two-spaces-between-sentences way of entering and storing text.