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28.0.50; backward-sentence and forward-sentence don't work in shr

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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 42520 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Subject: bug#42520: 28.0.50; backward-sentence and forward-sentence don't work in shr
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:24:17 +0300

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

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> I noticed that M-a and M-e aren't useful for navigating the contents of
>> eww buffers (in particular, in readable mode).  I wonder if shr could
>> ensure that there are two spaces between sentences so that they do?
>
> shr can't possibly tell whether, e. g., those "." characters ended a
> sentence or not, so adding a space after all dots would be nonsensical.
>
> Like Basil says, if you want to change the behaviour here, set
> sentence-end-double-space to nil in the relevant buffers.
>
> So I'm closing this bug report.

Why doesn't eww-mode do this by default?

-- 
Basil

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