Re: auto-fill-mode breaks one line into two short and one long

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Gentlemen, the auto-fill-mode algorithm is all wrong.  Put the cursor
> at the end of
>
> Looking at e.g. 
http://localhost:8080/info/url?http://www.alan.gale.clara.co.uk/favourites.htm
>
> and hit SPC. One gets
>
> Looking at
> e.g.
> http://localhost:8080/info/url?http://www.alan.gale.clara.co.uk/favourites.htm
>
> whereas one should get
>
> Looking at e.g.
> http://localhost:8080/info/url?http://www.alan.gale.clara.co.uk/favourites.htm

I agree that is annoying, but according to this comment in do-auto-fill
it is intentional:

                               ;; If this is after period and a single space,
                               ;; move back once more--we don't want to break
                               ;; the line there and make it look like a
                               ;; sentence end.

You can work around it by setting sentence-end-double-space to nil
when auto-filling:

(defadvice do-auto-fill (around sentence-end-double-space activate)
  "Temporarily bind `sentence-end-double-space' to nil, to allow line breaks
after abbreviations etc."
  (let ((sentence-end-double-space nil))
    ad-do-it))

--
Kevin Rodgers