From: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
To: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, corbet@lwn.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:55:53 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080413235553.GG29599@tull.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48028841.900@gmail.com>
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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-13 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-13 18:26 [PATCH 1/1] Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-13 22:10 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-04-13 22:25 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-13 22:45 ` Al Viro
2008-04-13 22:49 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-14 2:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-04-14 2:33 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-14 13:52 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-04-14 14:21 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-14 15:07 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-04-14 15:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-14 3:09 ` Al Viro
2008-04-13 23:55 ` Nick Andrew [this message]
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