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by leviathant 292 days ago
I eventually gave up on this, but I always favored it because a period with two spaces after it very clearly designated the end of a sentence, as opposed to something like an abbreviation. It made parsing English just a little bit easier.
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Indeed, Emacs has historically used the double space at the end of a sentence to provide movement and cut functions operating on sentences.