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> Still trying to get two spaces between periods and
> sentences; trying another approach now using key
> bindings. I've tried the following in my dotfile:
> 
> (global-set-key "." ".  ")
> 
> But, this does not work. I get the following error in
> the mode-line:

How about something like this? Too ugly:

(defun one-dot-and-two-spaces ()
  (interactive)
  (insert ".  "))

(local-set-key "." 'one-dot-and-two-spaces)

Works here.