Re: What's a better regexp for 'sentence-end' variable??

[Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>]

gebser@ameritech.net writes:
[...]
> Because I do considerable editing of html and similar types of files, I
> wanted to add to the standard definition of "sentence-end". I.e., I
> wanted emacs to consider an end of sentence such character sequences
> which have ".", "?", or "!" when they are followed by either a "<" or
> ">".

[...]
> (defcustom sentence-end (purecopy "[.?!][]\<>\"')}]*\\($\\| $\\|\t\\|  
> \\)[ \t\n]*")

What is the `purecopy' in your code good for? You didn't change this
in the source code, did you? ;-)

[...]
> I want the cursor to land on top of the ">" or "<" character immediately
> after string comprising the standard definition.  That is, given:
>
> end.</p>
>
> hitting M-e would place the cursor after the period.

I would do it with a simple bit of Elisp.  You could put something
like the following into your ~/.emacs:


(defun my-html-forward-sentence ()
  (interactive)
  (save-match-data
    (if (re-search-forward "\\([.?!]\\)<" nil t)
	(goto-char (match-end 1))
      (goto-char (point-max)))))

(define-key sgml-mode-map (kbd "M-e") 'my-html-forward-sentence)


    Oliver
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