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Re: filling bug in text-mode
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: filling bug in text-mode |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:34:11 +0200 (CEST) |
> The patch below fixes the bug. It assumes that more than one
> successive periods should allow breaking even if they are
> followed by just one space.
>
> That's not correct--it SHOULD demand two spaces or a newline, after
> three periods, just as it does after one period.
This was my first reaction too, but after some thinking I can't
imagine a situation where you *really* want to prevent a line break
after two or periods. The very reason to suppress line breaking is
only to have a correct handling of abbreviated names like J. User.
IMHO we should consider the case `period/question mark/exclamation
mark + single space' as the exception which prevents a break, and
everything else should allow it. Doing the opposite (this is,
always insist on two spaces after those punctuation marks) appears
unnatural to me.
Werner
- filling bug in text-mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/05
- Re: filling bug in text-mode, Juri Linkov, 2005/10/07
- Re: filling bug in text-mode, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/08
- Re: filling bug in text-mode, Juri Linkov, 2005/10/09
- Re: filling bug in text-mode, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/10
- Re: filling bug in text-mode, Juri Linkov, 2005/10/10
- Re: filling bug in text-mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/10
- Re: filling bug in text-mode, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/10
- Re: filling bug in text-mode,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: filling bug in text-mode, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/11
- Re: filling bug in text-mode, Juri Linkov, 2005/10/14
- Re: filling bug in text-mode, David Kastrup, 2005/10/11
- Re: filling bug in text-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2005/10/11
- Re: filling bug in text-mode, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/11