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Most common for me would be keyboard navigation in text editors. Emacs, for example, assumes double-spaced sentences by default when using M-a / M-e / M-k / C-
by yellowapple 3y ago
Most common for me would be keyboard navigation in text editors. Emacs, for example, assumes double-spaced sentences by default when using M-a / M-e / M-k / C-x DEL for sentence-based navigation/editing: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sentences.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Se...
Being able to count sentences per paragraph, words per sentence, etc. is also handy for maintaining good writing style. Excessively-long sentences or paragraphs can be trickier for folks to read; having solid metrics around sentence/paragraph length helps identify candidates for simplification.