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

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> 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