Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
From: Nick Andrew
Date: Sun Apr 13 2008 - 19:56:21 EST
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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