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Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?
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David Reitter |
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Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work? |
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Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:52:01 +0000 |
On 14 Feb 2008, at 14:43, Stefan Monnier wrote:
without the lexicon, you can achieve 97.7% accuracy (on English)
using the
right regular expressions, and I think this will be similar for
other
languages as well. I think that's good enough for M-e and M-a.
But the period-single-space vs period-double-space distinction
allows us
to get it right 100% in many more languages than just English.
Do people write like this in other languages?
From our discussion here today I take it that they don't. Thus, your
accuracy may be more like 20% in other languages or even parts of the
world, assuming that one if five either adopt American conventions or
find the customization variable. This will probably work or it won't,
depending on the particular user.
If my Aquamacs statistics (as attached) are a representative sample,
about half the Emacs users are located outside the US. (And I'm
pretty sure that there is a very strong Japanese population that skews
this even further). How many of these commonly use double-spacing?
Do you want users to adapt to the software, or do you want the
software to provide what is needed to deal with a user's needs?
Consider that variable width fonts are more common now. I do most
things using variable-width fonts, including LaTeX editing. Maybe
that is why I never bothered with double spacing, even though I quite
like it in principle.
I'll shut up with this. Still, should people decide they want a patch
using the Grefenstette et al. method (or even something more modern),
I'd be happy to work that out.
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- 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
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