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0 pointskagevf2y ago0 comments

I put that sentence into a "scratch.txt" and a .org buffer in emacs, and when I hit M-e (forward-sentence) it just goes to the end of the line ...

Then I realized that the 1st sentence was missing the extra space after the 2nd period, and then M-e jumped to the end of the first sentence.

In vim, hitting ) in normal mode stopped after each period.

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dpifke2y ago· 2 in thread

Then I realized that the 1st sentence was missing the extra space after the 2nd period, and then M-e jumped to the end of the first sentence.

Yeah, my comment rendered as HTML, which stripped the double-space from the original text I entered.

Using double-space means that the source document is unambiguous, thus you preserve options for whatever renders the text—keep the double-space, strip it, convert it to Unicode, etc.

rusk2y ago

I wonder can it do “   ” (3x &nbsp;)?

EDIT apparently not

medstrom2y ago

Mate, if raw HTML worked, HN comments would be a terrible place.

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