Jrnl: No way to have "." in the middle of a title

[sloria]

Bug report

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• Please tell us about your environment:

  • Jrnl version: (run jrnl -v): jrnl version v2.4.1
  • How you installed Jrnl: pipx install jrnl
  • Operating system [MacOS, Linux, Windows?]: macOS

• What is the current behavior?

There is no way to prevent jrnl from breaking on

• Please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem

Run jrnl to create a new entry:

$ jrnl

In your editor, enter:

TIL that `. script` is equivalent to `source script`

Broken behavior: a newline is inserted after the first ..

$ jrnl -n 1
2020-05-09 11:51 TIL that `.
| script` is equivalent to `source script`
|
| But `. script` is more portable

• What is the expected behavior?

. should only be considered the end of the title if it actually ends a sentence.

• Other information (e.g. detailed explanation, stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix, links for us to have context, eg. stackoverflow, gitter, etc)

This is possibly a regression of https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl/issues/360 .

[wren]

We should remove the parsing of a period for the title. The first linebreak already denotes the title in the absence of a period. I think only using the linebreak gives the user better control of their journal.

[sloria]

Agreed--that would solve this problem and I think it's better behavior more generally.

[ms82494]

I create most of my entries from the command line. And I really like the ability to have titles for them. I hope you can preserve that when you change the parsing of editor-created entries.

[sloria]

@ms82494 Even if the parsing of the first period is removed, you would still be able to use linebreaks, e.g. jrnl 'This is the title\nThis is the content'

[ms82494]

How embarrassing! It never even occurred to me to use escape characters in the entries.

[eshrh]

@ms82494 I preserve this functionality in PR #958.
It breaks the title by sentence terminals(period, question mark, exclamation etc) when there is no newline in the entry. If there is a newline, then it assumes that it was produced from the editor and breaks by newline. Typing a \n by hand is one of the most unnatural things you can do in a program that places great emphasis on natural language.