[PLUG] Emacs Text Editing Question

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Fri Mar 25 15:55:05 UTC 2016


On 03/25/16 08:36, Ali Corbin wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2016 8:07 AM, "Rich Shepard" <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>>
> ...
>> measures are difficult to interpret as suitable for fish and
>> wildlife. Biological-based standards of water quality are more useful
>>
>> The 'd' in "and" is on column 59; when I place "wildlife" on that line the
>> space after the '.' is in column 70. So, why is the \n placed between
> "and"
>> and "wildlife." when I reformat using M-q?
>>
> 
> I've noticed this too, but only when I've pasted text into Emacs. My trick
> is to add a second space after the period.
> 
> Now I went to school in the dark ages, and was taught to put two spaces
> between sentences. I presume that Emacs is of the same vintage, and has
> somehow decided that dot-single-space isn't really a word separator. But
> I'm sure there's a setting you can change if you prefer single spaces
> between sentences.

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