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 #8 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 14:52:57 +0300

> From: Van L <van <at> scratch.space>
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 20:56:50 +1000
> 
> I use eww-mode to visit a webpage, such as, 
> 
>   http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-52566
> 
> I press 'R to have the page more readable.
> 
> When I press the key M-e for the command forward-sentence ; I expect to have the point goto the end of that sentence.
> 
> It overshoots to the end of the paragraph.

With that page's text, you should set sentence-end-double-space to
nil, to have the behavior you want.
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