GNU bug report logs - #20871
25.0.50; fill-single-char-nobreak-p does not recognize a single-letter word when it is preceded by an open paren

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #128 received at 20871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, 20871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mina86 <at> mina86.com
Subject: Re: bug#20871: 25.0.50;
 fill-single-char-nobreak-p does not recognize a single-letter word
 when it is preceded by an open paren
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:04:38 +0300

> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
> Cc: Michał Nazarewicz <mina86 <at> mina86.com>,
>  mattiase <at> acm.org, 20871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 16:17:04 +0200
> 
> > My problem is conceptual rather than practical.  Since in , e.g.,
> > English it is okay to break a line after single-letter words, whereas
> > in Polish it is not [...]
> 
> FWIW, I remember some English native speaker (from the UK, I guess)
> saying that he likes the rule about not breaking the line after e.g. "a"
> and would like English to have a similar one.

I could understand that, but someone's personal preferences are not
necessarily good for the rest of us.
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