Re: sentence-end regexp flexibilization

Felix> I am proposing a patch to lisp/paragraphs.el to make the Felix> sentence-end regexp more flexible. Felix> The problem: Inline markup (as in XML) should not be Felix> considered part of the sentence. Felix> Proposed fix: Mark within the sentence-end expression the Felix> end-marker as the first subexpression. Jump to its Felix> match-end instead of skipping backwards. Your idea changes the semantics of all sentences. Personally, I happen to think that sentences should not include bracketing characters (quotes or parentheses), and that in fact you should use s-expression functions to capture those (including "colored" brackets such as SGML tags). But those are the historical semantics, and I don't think it can be accepted for 21.4. If you want to work up a proposal for 21.5 to rework the whole idea of sentences, I'd be supportive. But you should get the opinions of the other reviewers (http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/jobs.html) before doing too much work as the whole idea will be controversial. It will also presumably be an incompatibility with GNU Emacs. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.