Re: org-pop-mode

["Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@shoulson.com>]

On 3/18/20 4:24 PM, Adam Porter wrote:
> BTW, in the body of your email, the text you write has these two
> characters between sentences: "  ".  The second is a plain space, but
> the first is a Unicode non-breaking space, or "C-x 8 RET a0".  I noticed
> because it's displayed in Emacs as an underline character next to the
> plain space.
>
Huh!  Interesting.  Because I know for a fact that I'm hitting the space 
bar twice and not a NBSP.  (I use and maintain 
https://github.com/kragen/xcompose so I can type all kinds of things; 
NBSP is Multi-Key Space Space).  I guess because my mailer has me 
composing things in HTML mode, and I double-space my periods, and it's 
thinking "strings of whitespace are collapsed into a single space in 
HTML!  I'd better do something to make sure those extra spaces, which he 
took so much care to type, aren't lost!" and makes on a NBSP to take up 
extra space.  (There was recently a whole discussion on the Unicode 
mailing list about how 0x00A0 is almost universally used as a 
fixed-width space when the specs say it should be flex-width, sigh.)

~mark