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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.
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Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus (2015-12-31 12:52 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> writes:
>>
>>> Do you know though, is there any way to get emacs to insert the extra
>>> space in description strings and comments automatically (without it
>>> messing things up of course). Perhaps we should modify the importers =
to
>>> insert this automatically in the description field.
>>
>> The CRAN and Bioconductor importers already do this.  See
>> =E2=80=9Cbeautify-description=E2=80=9D in =E2=80=9Cguix/import/cran.sc=
m=E2=80=9D.
>
> Hm, is it reliable?  Not all dots specify an end of a sentence: there
> are things like "e.g.", "i.e.", "etc.".  Also there may be abbreviation=
s
> like "ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing library" (synopsis of
> 'libatasmart' package).  Or even things like =E2=80=9C<form> ... </form=
>=E2=80=9D
> (description of 'perl-html-form') =E2=80=94 it should probably be wrapp=
ed in
> @code{} by the way.

It=E2=80=99s not supposed to be maintenance-free.  Descriptions often sta=
rt with
sentence fragments, which cannot be detected easily.  I found that
=E2=80=9Cbeautify-description=E2=80=9D works well enough to make packagin=
g R stuff much
simpler for me.

~~ Ricardo