Re: Auto-fill-mode bug: unbreakable space lost

[Gaetan Leurent <gaetan.leurent@ens.fr>]

Stefan wrote on 23 Mar 2005 14:34:51 +0100:

>>> Maybe NBSP shouldn't have whitespace syntax.
>> Whaaa?  What syntax should it have instead?
>
> I guess punctuation.  An NBSP *looks like* whitespace but its intended
> behavior is to not be treated like whitespace (at leasst according to this
> bug-report).

Well, I don't know exactly how NBSP should be handled, and in fact both
solutions could make sense.

The current behavior annoys me because I make the French quotation mark
'«' insert '«  »' and put the point between the NBSP, because french
quotations should be « like this », and if auto-fill mode gets in my way
while I fill the quotation, I loose the NBSP.

Concerning whitespace, a quick 'fgrep '" \t"' -r .' in the emacs source
shows quite lot of place where this is still used to match whitespace
instead of using the whitespace syntax, even in fill.el, so it's a bit
confusing...

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Gaëtan LEURENT