From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:39:06 +0530 Message-ID: <87lifsc459.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87pq59gihf.fsf@lapcat.tftorrey.com> <87r4pokv5w.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348927768 23786 80.91.229.3 (29 Sep 2012 14:09:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:09:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 29 16:09:34 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1THxjZ-00034N-Jl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:09:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37791 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1THxjT-0000I8-FK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52057) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1THxjN-0000Hs-MI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:09:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1THxjM-0001Wa-JG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:09:21 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1THxjM-0001WO-Cs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1THxjN-0002zI-1C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:09:21 +0200 Original-Received: from 122.179.54.38 ([122.179.54.38]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:09:21 +0200 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.179.54.38 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:09:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.179.54.38 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110019 (No Gnus v0.19) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iRFEU7NoQWujFqZ5kKzYJRSbvxo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86994 Archived-At: On Thu, Sep 27 2012,Eric Abrahamsen wrote: [snipped 21 lines] > "2.1.4 Use a single word space between sentences. > > In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in > typography and type design, many compositors were encouraged to > stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of > twentieth-century typists were then taught to do the same, by > hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well > as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint > Victorian habit." > I spend 10 years learning to double space because Emacs says so and M-q plays nice to me and you dig this out? Just when I know something, someone changes the rules! Again. :-) sivaram --