Re: sentence-end regexp flexibilization

Hello! I'm afraid I have been misleading. What you write reads quite like what I meant, so I'll try to get at the real differences. 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. SJT> Your idea changes the semantics of all sentences. SJT> Personally, I happen to think that sentences should not SJT> include bracketing characters (quotes or parentheses), and SJT> that in fact you should use s-expression functions to capture SJT> those (including "colored" brackets such as SGML tags). But SJT> those are the historical semantics, and I don't think it can SJT> be accepted for 21.4. Hm, I think I see what you're getting at: by my patch, the sentence marks would change in more places than I thought about. Closing parentheses would also not be parts of sentences any more, for one thing. But then, opening parentheses should be handled likewise, and so on. SJT> If you want to work up a proposal for 21.5 to rework the SJT> whole idea of sentences, I'd be supportive. But you should SJT> get the opinions of the other reviewers SJT> (http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/jobs.html) before doing too SJT> much work as the whole idea will be controversial. I'll give this some thought. SJT> It will also presumably be an incompatibility with GNU Emacs. I was afraid of that, finding paragraphs.el bundled in the core. Best wishes, -- Felix H. Gatzemeier fxg(a)i3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Office Phone: (0(049)241)80-21313 Disclaimer: I do not speak for anyone but myself. Please do not send me mails containing documents in proprietary formats (such as Microsoft Word) unless you really need to.