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Re: We are Neanderthals!
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: We are Neanderthals! |
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Fri, 25 Sep 2015 10:55:31 +0200 |
> Only antique Neanderthals type two spaces after a period:
Oh, so we are the more modern Neanderthals then, compared to the common
neolithic Neanderthals. I take that as a compliment ;)
——
Emacs users have a good reason to use two spaces between sentences:
‘forward-sentence’ (M-e, M-a) uses ‘sentence-end’ to figure out the end
of a sentence and this is what the help says about the default value:
The default value specifies that in order to be recognized as the
end of a sentence, the ending period, question mark, or exclamation
point must be followed by two spaces, with perhaps some closing
delimiters in between. See Info node `(elisp)Standard Regexps'.
With a single space it’s more difficult to distinguish sentence endings
from the single space after abbreviations or titles like “Mrs.”.
(I only started using two spaces after a sentence end since using
Emacs.)