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It might be just that he uses Emacs for writing emails. Emacs uses double space after periods by default.
by jinwoo68 3y ago
It might be just that he uses Emacs for writing emails. Emacs uses double space after periods by default.
- sokoloff 3y agoEmacs uses the presence of double spaces after periods as a marker that that particular sequence of text is the end of a sentence. It doesn't insert them by default, but rather interprets their insertion in a particular way. See: sentence-end-double-space, a variable, and sentence-end, a function, both defined in ‘paragraphs.el’. Other editors made this same interpretation of existing, common practice.