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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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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
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: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:02:36 +0200

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On 2016-04-17, at 16:49, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
>> Cc: 20871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 17:34:04 +0200
>> 
>> In Polish typography, it is customary to foribid line breaks after
>> one-letter words (and we have quite a few of them: a, i, o, w, z - they
>> are conjunctions or prepositions).  And it is not uncommon to have
>> a combination of them with a parenthesized remark or something like
>> that.  That's why allowing a linebreak after, say "(a" when writing
>> something in Polish (like an email, for instance) is a bug IMO.
>> 
>> > See, the function in question, fill-single-char-nobreak-p, is
>> > documented as a possible value to use in the fill hook, for a very
>> > specific purpose.  If you are saying that it doesn't fulfill that
>> > purpose well enough, please show a use case where it fails to do that.
>> > At least the situation you described, with " (a", doesn't seem to fit
>> > the use cases which this function is supposed to cover, since the
>> > parenthesis makes a 2-character sequence, whereas
>> > fill-single-char-nobreak-p aims to support isolated one-character
>> > words.
>> 
>> I see.  So you suggest that instead of patching
>> `fill-single-char-nobreak-p' I should have provided another function,
>> customized for Polish?
>
> Yes, I think so.  There's already fill-french-nobreak-p, why shouldn't
> there be a Polish predicate?

I attach a new patch. Is it better now?

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University

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