M-a & M-e recognizes paragraphs as sentences
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raskolnikov_104 · 2022-08-26 18:12

Hi, I am new to Emacs. When writing Bangla in org-mode, I change the
input method to bengali-probhat. But after that, the org document
recognizes the paragraphs as sentences, that is - if I press M-a, the
cursor moves to the beginning of the paragraph, & M-e takes me to the
end of the paragraph, instead of moving by sentences.

Is there any way to configure it?

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jalihal · 2022-08-26 19:40

Typically M-e `forward-sentence` "knows" sentences based on the regexp
stored in `sentence-end`, set to nil by default.

Since M-e has the expected behavior using bengali-itrans but not in
bengali-probhat, I figured the problem was that the bengali/devanagari
sentence ending "।" was not being recognized. Setting the following
variable helped:

`(setq sentence-end "\\(.।\\)")`

Let me know if this works for you!

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_viz_ · 2022-08-27 02:10

This is worth sending it as a feature request.   Emacs already
supports the sentence mark used by Chinese and Japanese iirc.

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raskolnikov_104 · 2022-08-27 07:20

It worked. Thank you very much!