Re: `forward-sentence' broken?

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 26.09.2013 17:38, schrieb Frederik:
> Hello there,
> at least for me the behaviour of the `forward-sentence' function
> (normally bound to M-e) in GNU Emacs doesn't work right.
>
> After pasting the following paragraph to a buffer
> --------------------------------------------------------
>         Maximilian Karl Emil "Max" Weber was a German sociologist,
>         philosopher, and political economist whose ideas influenced
>         social theory, social research, and the entire discipline of
>         sociology. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl
>         Marx, as among the three founding architects of sociology.
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> I place the cursor to the beginning of the paragraph, i.e. just before
> "Maximilian". Then pressing M-e brings the cursor to the end of the
> paragraph. But the intended behaviour is to bring the cursor to the end
> of the first sentence, i.e. after the first "sociology", right before
> "Weber", isn't it? Is this a bug I should report?
> I tried this after starting up emacs by
>         $ emacs -Q
> Emacs version 24.3.1 on Arch Linux.
>
> Regards
>
> (also posted on the Arch Linux forums:
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170403 )

Sentence end is expressed by two spaces following a period. Kind of 
semi-standard in computing AFAIK.
Otherwise it's hard to discriminate if from abbreviations and other symbols 
inside.

Maybe exists an emacs library providing this for singlespaced textes? Being 
interested also.