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Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions
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Van L |
Subject: |
Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:44:41 +1000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (darwin) |
Phil Sainty <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2019-06-17 07:20, Juri Linkov wrote:
... [snip]
>>
>> This feature is sorely missed: every time I copy text from web browsers
>> to Emacs I have to manually insert additional space at the end of every
>> copied sentence before typing M-q.
>
... [snip]
> E.g. for example, should not become "E.g. for example".
>
> P. G. Wodehouse should not end up as "P. G. Wodehouse".
>
> Prof. Moriarty should not end up as "Prof. Moriarty"
>
> When the same punctuation character is used for multiple things, I don't
> imagine there's any way for Emacs to do this accurately, short of
> natural-
> language parsing (which sounds like a giant can of worms) ?
You can keep score in an
'admin/ambitious-challenges-TODO' file for people
to throw in the can an amount of $1 or €1 or ¥100 or 10¢ or 2¢ or
as much as they like for when the challenge is
solved by the GNU hero in the future.
For me, the double-space sentence ending is easier to read.
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