GNU bug report logs - #72150
'fill-region' works incorrectly

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: the_wurfkreuz <the_wurfkreuz <at> proton.me>

Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 72150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 72150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, the_wurfkreuz <at> proton.me
Subject: Re: bug#72150: 'fill-region' works incorrectly
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 10:15:03 +0300

tags 72150 notabug
close 72150
thanks

> Cc: the_wurfkreuz <at> proton.me
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:03:13 +0200
> From:  Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:13:29 +0000 the_wurfkreuz via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > If i set '(setq-default fill-column 79)' and then try to format the text below
> > with the 'fill-region' command:
> >
> > "If you mount a filesystem over a directory that already contains files, those
> > files become hidden and are not counted in the disk usage of the mount
> > point. However, the space they occupy is still used on the underlying
> > filesystem."
> >
> > Then instead of getting this formatting:
> >
> > If you mount a filesystem over a directory that already contains files, those
> > files become hidden and are not counted in the disk usage of the mount point.
> > However, the space they occupy is still used on the underlying filesystem.
> >
> > I get this:
> >
> > If you mount a filesystem over a directory that already contains files, those
> > files become hidden and are not counted in the disk usage of the mount
> > point. However, the space they occupy is still used on the underlying
> > filesystem.
> 
> This is because the user option `sentence-end-double-space' has the
> default value t.  Change it to nil to make fill-region give the result
> you expect.

No further comments, so I'm closing this non-bug.
This bug report was last modified 293 days ago.

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