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Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?
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Thorsten Bonow |
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Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work? |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:52:31 +0100 (CET) |
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
Stefan> The problem is that "half the world" doesn't know that "the other
Stefan> half" uses 2-spaces after a ".". So the docstring of
Stefan> sentence-end-double-space should probably explain that this is a
Stefan> convention used throughout North America (AFAICT).
Funnily enough, this convention used in the English speaking world is called
"french spacing" or---not joking---non french spacing. The meaning became
reversed over time (in some countries). Wikipedia tries to enlighten fearless
readers :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_spacing
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- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, (continued)
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Jonathan Rockway, 2008/02/15
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, David Reitter, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Miles Bader, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, David Reitter, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Miles Bader, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, David Reitter, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/13
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?,
Thorsten Bonow <=
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Miles Bader, 2008/02/13
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/02/13