Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:03:49 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <20000602180349.A232@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000602022954.A44300@keltia.freenix.fr>; from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:29:54AM %2B0200 References: <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com> <20000601141807.A40162@keltia.freenix.fr> <8h6k9a$6ke$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> <20000602022954.A44300@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:29:54AM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Christian Weisgerber:
> > The block fill functions of some editors as well as fmt(1) give it
> > away, too.
>
> Xemacs seems to respect the two spaces fortunately.
>
Unless you add this to ~/.emacs:
;;Fill paragraphs with a single space after each full stop
(setq sentence-end "[.?!][]\"')}]*\\($\\|[ \t]\\)[ \t\n]*")
(setq sentence-end-double-space nil)
> > I trust you already noticed that English doesn't share the French
> > habit of putting a space before '?' and '!'?
>
> Yes. Don't like it though :-)
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