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Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:36:02 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>> Maybe I misunderstand the purpose of this function, but `forward-
>>> sentence' doesn't work for me. It always jumps to the end of the
>>> paragraph
>>> rather than to the end of the sentence.
>> 
>> You need to set sentence-end-double-space to nil.

> That works. Why is this variable not nil by default?

The problem is that "half the world" doesn't know that "the other half"
uses 2-spaces after a ".".  So the docstring of
sentence-end-double-space should probably explain that this is
a convention used throughout North America (AFAICT).


        Stefan





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