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bug#5438: 23.0.94; auto-fill-mode behaves strangely with periods near en
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#5438: 23.0.94; auto-fill-mode behaves strangely with periods near end of line |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:07:24 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
> I am confused by how auto-fill deals with periods near the end of the
> line. It seems that the determination of where to wrap is based not
> only on spaces, but also on periods. That is, auto-fill seems to
> search for the final space before the last column, but if that space
> is preceded by a period, it looks back for the preceding space, and so
> on. I notice this
I think you're seeing another feature of the system:
sentence-end-double-space. It's usd among other things to prevent
wrapping the line right after "e.g." or "Mr." and things like that.
Stefan