STOP PUTTING TWO SPACES AFTER PUNCTUATION THIS ISN'T 1900 ANYMORE AND YOU WEREN'T EVEN BORN YET IN THE TIME OF TYPEWRITERS

Wooot?

The appropriate Vim command is "set nojoinspaces".

That will prevent Vim from inserting two spaces when rewrapping text with gq and related commands.

@rutee07 Treat their claustrophobia. Or whatever else they have.

@rutee07 They can move in to your basement

What ?

@sudocode Really? I just Googled "when were typewriters invented" and rounded up to the nearest 100 years.

@uyouthe My coworker writes all his documentation with two spaces between sentences. This practice originates from typewriters because it was necessary there. But people still do it today because they think it's "correct".

I find two spaces after a period easier to parse as a reader, so I employ it as a writer. But I also use 4 spaces in my JSON.stringify(), so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

@MySlugLikesSalt people are using ellipsis as a distinct symbol that was introduced solely because they had to save horizontal space when using mono typefaces

@AmyShackles While reading your writing would irk me, I at least understand that. It bugs me though that people think it's "correct", when that was only for typewriters.

Before:

First sentence.__Second sentence.

After:

First sentence._Second sentence.

Do you mean this?

(_ inserted as space for clarification)

@IntrusionCM Yes

@MySlugLikesSalt

OCD is strong with this one. XD

@IntrusionCM I won't deny that haha. Though if you think *this* is strong I don't even wanna know what you'd call the other crazy stuff I'm OCD about...

@MySlugLikesSalt

I should have mentioned that I prefer displaying control characters in editor...

So yeah. Can relate.

When you do eg this...

apt-get update -y &&
apt -y install nfs-common &&
apt-get -y upgrade

There might be curses heading your way.

apt update -y &&
apt install -y nfs-common &&
apt upgrade -y

@Nanos Hmm... Interesting. I've always had good vision all my life, if it wasn't good (maybe not even *bad*, just not great) it's very possible I'd look at this differently.

But it’s part of the markdown spec...

@010001111 Well if Mark is down then why are we still listening to him anyway?

But no I was referring specifically to OneNote documents in this case. Which I didn't specify.

Says the one that TYPES IN CAPS. Stop it.

@Linux NO

If I was the original poster, I would actually start from using PUNCTUATION.

@thatDude I typed it exactly how I meant it.

@MySlugLikesSalt you meant it wrong

@electrineer that was exactly the point....

@Jilano lol. No, it was meant to be read as yelling (caps...) and a run-on, no-breaths rant (no punctuation). I’m not sure if some people are deliberately missing that or if they really spend that little time on the internet...

@Jilano ha yeah most likely