Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:55:53 +1000 | From | Nick Andrew <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt |
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:25:05AM +0400, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: > Actually, I was doubting whether the "2 spaces" thing was > intentional or not. The overwhelming majority of the sentences in > this document use only one space after a period, however, and this > made me decide that the "2 spaces" thing had not been deliberate > but just a typo.
The 2-spaces ones were probably reformatted using 'fmt'. If fmt joins a line ending in a period, it will use 2 spaces. It does not change the spacing in non-joined lines, despite what the manpage says.
Nick.
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