Jason Franklin wrote:
> Well, according to the most widely accepted conventions in English grammar,
> quotes always come after the period, exclamation point, or question mark. So,
> the following:
>
> This is a "sentence." This is a sentence.
>
> would be considered two correct and completely separate sentences.
Only if the text inside quotes itself is a sentence, like:
My boss said "Thanks for fixing that." This is a sentence.
Here you would leave out the second full stop, as opposed to:
My boss said "Thanks for fixing that.". This is a sentence.
However, some say it has to be written like:
My boss said "Thanks for fixing that". This is a sentence.
Which I actually prefer. This is probably the British way.
> The documentation under ":h sentence" defines a sentence in the correct way,
> and my patch is an attempt to bring the sentence text object in line with the
> prevailing English grammar rules and with the Vim documentation.
>
> It's difficult to say, here, because we so often write English text *about*
> source code. In technical writing we often need to quote very specific terms
> that have '.' characters in them in odd places (note what I just did there).
> With quotes, us technical writers are saying: "I mean EXACTLY THIS and not
> something else." This is different from what writers do in quoting discourse.
> This is why I can understand your thinking that
>
> This is a "sentence." This is a sentence.
>
> should be considered one "sentence."
>
> In either case, one of them is incorrect! I carefully followed the
> rules here, so I still contend that my patch is valid.
The most important is that "is" and "as" do the same thing. Since Vim
is more often used for technical text I would prefer to stick with the
British style, so that literal quoting works.
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