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Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:19:31 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> 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.
>
> You can't do this automatically, can you? One of the reasons that the
> double-spaced sentence convention is useful in the first place is that
> it unambiguously differentiates sentence endings from other uses of that
> punctuation character which do *not* indicate the end of a sentence.
>
> 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) ?
I believe it's possible to find some simple heuristics (maybe even
just regexp-based) that would cover more than 90% of cases.
And like when a spell-checker finds an unknown word, the user can add it
to the personal dictionary, a new double-spacer command should allow
the user to add exceptions to the personal customization.
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- Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions, Juri Linkov, 2019/06/16
- Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions, Phil Sainty, 2019/06/16
- Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions, Van L, 2019/06/17
- Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions, Marcin Borkowski, 2019/06/17
- Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions, Yuri Khan, 2019/06/17
- Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions, Juri Linkov, 2019/06/18
- Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions, Andy Moreton, 2019/06/19
- Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions, Juri Linkov, 2019/06/19
- Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions, Noam Postavsky, 2019/06/19
- Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions, Damien Cassou, 2019/06/17