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'fill-region' works incorrectly

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: the_wurfkreuz via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
 text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 72150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, the_wurfkreuz <the_wurfkreuz <at> proton.me>
Subject: Re: bug#72150: 'fill-region' works incorrectly
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:03:13 +0200

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.

Steve Berman

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