Re: Auto-fill-mode bug: unbreakable space lost

[Gaetan Leurent]

Stefan Monnier wrote on 23 Mar 2005 20:57:46 +0100:

> I find NBSP to be a source of too many problems, so I think it should be
> kept for those rare cases where the unbreakability of a space isn't obvious
> from context.
>
> Try (add-hook 'fill-nobreak-predicate 'fill-french-nobreak-p)
> Note that fill-french-nobreak-p is new in Emacs-CVS.

This is not a solution, I can't just put a normal space and rely on
emacs to DTRT. For instance, if I am writing an HTML page, even if a
space is obviously unbreakable, I must put a NBSP. If I am writing some
text together with someone else, I can't assume that his text editor
will DTRT. And even when writing an email, if someone quotes my text and
re-warp it, I don't want those obviously unbreakable spaces to be
broken.

So NBSP is useful, and emacs should handle it properly.

-- 
Gaëtan LEURENT