Thanks, these solutions worked. Just a note for anyone doing the same
thing, if you don't use double spaces after your sentences (like me), then
you need to add the following to your init file:

(setq sentence-end-double-space nil)



*Chase Dwelle*
PhD Pre-Candidate - Environmental Engineering
Dow Doctoral Sustainability Fellow
www.chase-dwelle.com






On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Mosè Giordano <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Chase,
>
> 2015-03-12 18:48 GMT+01:00 Chase Dwelle <[email protected]>:
> > As I understand it, the `fill-paragraph` command creates a new line when
> the
> > length of the line is greater than some number of characters.
> >
> > For my purposes, I'd like the command to insert a new line only when
> there
> > is a new sentence, i.e., when there is a period followed by a space and a
> > new word. The reason for this is to get the full context of a change
> if/when
> > I use the `diff` command a document.
> >
> > I believe the regexp for what I want is "\.\s-\w". Is there a way to make
> > the `fill-paragraph` command replace this with a newline, so replace
> > "\.\s-\w" with "\.\n"?
>
> This feature is often requested by people using version control
> systems.  There are many solutions proposed on the Internet, just
> search for "auctex sentence filling" (without quotes).  Some of the
> first results are:
> -
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/539984/how-do-i-get-emacs-to-fill-sentences-but-not-paragraphs
> -
> http://pleasefindattached.blogspot.de/2011/12/emacsauctex-sentence-fill-greatly.html
> -
> https://thingsthatpassforknowledge.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/emacs-prettifies-plain-text-files-for-version-control/
>
> Bye,
> Mosè
>
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