(fill-region-as-paragraph): Don't forget to skip

over current whitespace before looking for a preceding space.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 404c3c1f546..d590fca893d 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-11-01  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@rum.cs.yale.edu>
+
+        * fill.el (fill-region-as-paragraph): Don't forget to skip
+        over current whitespace before looking for a preceding space.
+
 2001-11-01  Richard M. Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
 
         * files.el (find-file-noselect): Offer to change buffer-read-only
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/fill.el b/lisp/textmodes/fill.el
index 48a4de776cf..afe493b5591 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/fill.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/fill.el
@@ -565,7 +565,9 @@ space does not end a sentence, so don't break a line there."
                 ;; further fills will assume it ends a sentence.
                 ;; If we now know it does not end a sentence,
                 ;; avoid putting it at the end of the line.
-                (while (and (> (point) linebeg) (fill-nobreak-p))
+                (while (and (> (point) linebeg)
+                            (fill-nobreak-p)
+                            (skip-chars-backward " \t"))
                   (if (re-search-backward " \\|\\c|.\\|.\\c|" linebeg 0)
                       (forward-char 1)))
                 ;; If the left margin and fill prefix by themselves