Monday, August 6, 2018

Re: Formatting text and using the convention of putting 2 spaces after a period

On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 11:40:01AM +0100, David Woodfall wrote:
> I've noticed that when I select a block of text (written English
> prose, not code) and press gq to reformat it, vim will change some of
> the spaces after a period into two spaces, as is the convention among
> some typists.
>
> Is this intended, and can it be changed?

it could be to enhance formatting, eg. in Markdown. markdown uses two
spaces to force a new line, like <br> in html.

probably there is a way to change this setting, but I don't know it.

//meine

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