suggestion: add "repunctuate" functionality

[Daniel Ortmann]

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and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Text sentences are recognized by double space after punctuation with
optional ' " or ) characters to the right.

Email, news and other text commonly uses French spacing with a single
character after a sentence.  Emacs does not recognize sentences with
French spacing, causing reformatting and M-a / M-e difficulties.

One solution is to facilitate updating single-spaced sentences with
double spaces.

Consider adding functionality similar to the following:

(defun repunctuate () (interactive)
  (query-replace-regexp "\\([\"')]?\\)\\([.?!]\\)\\([\"')]?\\) +" "\\1\\2\\3  
"))

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-05-16 on praxis
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Recent input:
SPC t h e SPC m o d e l i n e SPC a n d SPC n o SPC 
v e r s i o n SPC c o n t r o l SPC c o m m a n d s 
SPC w o r k . C-p M-f M-f M-f M-b t h e r e SPC i s 
SPC M-q C-a C-n C-n C-n C-n C-c C-c M-< C-x M-f C-v 
M-< C-s r e p u n C-a C-SPC C-n C-n M-w M-x r e p o 
t <backspace> <tab> r <tab> <return>

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