GNU bug report logs - #32758
26.1 emacs-mac 7.2; forward-sentence in eww overshoots to paragraph ending

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Van L <van <at> scratch.space>

Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:58:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 26.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 32758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Van L <van <at> scratch.space>
Cc: 32758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32758: 26.1 emacs-mac 7.2;
 forward-sentence in eww overshoots to paragraph ending
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:16:53 +0300

> From: Van L <van <at> scratch.space>
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 22:17:01 +1000
> Cc: 32758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Can Emacs be smartish about sentence-end spacing? look at the periods and spaces between sentences in a paragraph and interpret according to use which is common in the wild wild web.

It would need some statistical analysis of the text and guesswork
based on that, but I don't see why that would be impossible.  Patches
welcome.

> If I do according to the suggestion won’t I miss out on double space endings between sentences?

No, but you might "acquire" sentences where there are none, such as 3
of them in "J. R. Hacker".
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