bug#17321: 24.3.50; Fill paragraph fails with period in fill-column

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>      ;; Don't break after a period followed by just one space.
>>      ;; Move back to the previous place to break.
>>      ;; The reason is that if a period ends up at the end of a
>>      ;; line, further fills will assume it ends a sentence.
>>      ;; If we now know it does not end a sentence, avoid putting
>>      ;; it at the end of the line.
>
> It's likely that this is causing the problem, but I'm not convinced that
> it justifies the current behavior.  IOW, I think it's just a bug.

Ah, this explains the weird behaviour I see from time to time.

If I have

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eius.|

then his a space, I get

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do
eius. |

Then I type on

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do
eius.  Ut enim ad|

And then hitting `M-q' gives me

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eius.
Ut enim ad|

Anybody against changing this odd behaviour in `fill-nobreak-p'?  It's
not quite clear what the overall repercussions would be, though.

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