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Re: `forward-sentence' broken?
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Dan Espen |
Subject: |
Re: `forward-sentence' broken? |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:43:54 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) |
Frederik <freak.fred@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello there,
> at least for me the behaviour of the `forward-sentence' function
> (normally bound to M-e) in GNU Emacs doesn't work right.
>
> After pasting the following paragraph to a buffer
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Maximilian Karl Emil "Max" Weber was a German sociologist,
> philosopher, and political economist whose ideas influenced
> social theory, social research, and the entire discipline of
> sociology. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl
> Marx, as among the three founding architects of sociology.
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> I place the cursor to the beginning of the paragraph, i.e. just before
> "Maximilian". Then pressing M-e brings the cursor to the end of the
> paragraph. But the intended behaviour is to bring the cursor to the end
> of the first sentence, i.e. after the first "sociology", right before
> "Weber", isn't it? Is this a bug I should report?
> I tried this after starting up emacs by
> $ emacs -Q
> Emacs version 24.3.1 on Arch Linux.
Go here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sentences.html
Specifically:
The sentence commands assume that you follow the American typist's
convention of putting two spaces at the end of a sentence.
--
Dan Espen