From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758081AbYDMX4V (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:56:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753253AbYDMX4J (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:56:09 -0400 Received: from yoi5.greathalifaxhome.com ([66.180.172.116]:55912 "HELO vps1.tull.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753015AbYDMX4I (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:56:08 -0400 X-Spam-Check-By: mail.local.tull.net Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:55:53 +1000 From: Nick Andrew To: Dmitri Vorobiev Cc: Randy Dunlap , 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 Message-ID: <20080413235553.GG29599@tull.net> References: <1208111201-15698-1-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> <20080413151020.bfa62f58.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <48028841.900@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48028841.900@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-SMTPD: qpsmtpd/0.26, http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.