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> *now also reports the number of sentences* Emphasis added.

• abudabi123 4y ago
  WOW That means Emacs has the smarts now to decide where a full stop ends a sentence and can follow up with double spacing.
  • mbork_pl 4y ago
    > The sentence commands assume that you follow the American typist’s convention of putting two spaces at the end of a sentence. That is, a sentence ends wherever there is a ‘.’, ‘?’ or ‘!’ followed by the end of a line or two spaces, with any number of ‘)’, ‘]’, ‘'’, or ‘"’ characters allowed in between. A sentence also begins or ends wherever a paragraph begins or ends. It is useful to follow this convention, because it allows the Emacs sentence commands to distinguish between periods that end a sentence and periods that indicate abbreviations. (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sentences.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Se...)
    • goosedragons 4y ago
      That's a good convention for people taught typing on a typewriter but pretty bad for younger folks.
      • Wildgoose 4y ago
        Disagree. I wasn't taught on a typewriter, (although my mother did teach typing), but any plain text will be aided by that convention. Yes, it's not necessary with justified text when using (for example) TeX. But seeing a solid wall of text in a long paragraph with no hints as to its sentence structure other than a tiny "."? No thanks.
        • MadcapJake 4y ago
          Perhaps this is true but the convention is no longer in use pedagogically.
    • tmtvl 4y ago
      Of course Emacs has a configuration option you can toggle which disables the need for a double space after a sentence.