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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