From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:44:41 +1000 Message-ID: References: <87ftocy5uv.fsf@cassou.me> <87a7ehea7w.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <292af6adcd90b805f8eb1c0241170221@webmail.orcon.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="12578"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 17 07:46:38 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hckTW-00035j-Ic for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 07:46:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44388 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hckTP-0007n7-HT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 01:46:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hckT4-0007mz-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 01:46:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hckT3-0005FC-7C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 01:46:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47964 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hckT3-0005Dl-0T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 01:46:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hckT0-0002af-OM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 07:46:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:mKeFO9xKj+cxocsHaqn3dtaA7mA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:237764 Archived-At: Phil Sainty writes: > On 2019-06-17 07:20, Juri Linkov wrote: ... [snip] >> >> This feature is sorely missed: every time I copy text from web browsers >> to Emacs I have to manually insert additional space at the end of every >> copied sentence before typing M-q. > ... [snip] > E.g. for example, should not become "E.g. for example". > > P. G. Wodehouse should not end up as "P. G. Wodehouse". > > Prof. Moriarty should not end up as "Prof. Moriarty" > > When the same punctuation character is used for multiple things, I don't > imagine there's any way for Emacs to do this accurately, short of > natural- > language parsing (which sounds like a giant can of worms) ? You can keep score in an 'admin/ambitious-challenges-TODO' file for people to throw in the can an amount of $1 or €1 or ¥100 or 10¢ or 2¢ or as much as they like for when the challenge is solved by the GNU hero in the future. For me, the double-space sentence ending is easier to read. -- © 2019 VanL gpg using EEF2 37E9 3840 0D5D 9183 251E 9830 384E 9683 B835 'The mouth is the dirtiest part on the human body.' - Bill Wallace