Re^2: For thought: "Perl in the greater context of (me and) the software business

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Re^3: For thought: "Perl in the greater context of (me and) the software business by ruzam (Curate) on Mar 21, 2013 at 04:08 UTC
Dang it! And I tried so hard to get it just right :)	[reply]
Re^3: For thought: "Perl in the greater context of (me and) the software business by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Mar 21, 2013 at 12:08 UTC
The only thing you missed is the.. blepharitic.. practice of sprinkling   throughout your text No. He further missed the “‘sundialsvc4-parting-saying’ with gratuitous stylistic device” `...` canonically used to close a post. For example: Just askin’ “Schweet!” “Priceless™ ...”	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: For thought: "Perl in the greater context of (me and) the software business by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 21, 2013 at 12:32 UTC
Trouble is; now he thinks he's got a fan club! Next he'll be offering classes and publishing a style guide.	[reply]
Re^3: For thought: "Perl in the greater context of (me and) the software business by graff (Chancellor) on Mar 23, 2013 at 07:42 UTC
Actually, I get the impression from the OP that sundialsvc4 is using something that automatically transforms two (or more?) consecutive spaces into a single space followed by one (or more?) ` ` (it must be automatic, because doing it manually is too painful to contemplate). And I wouldn't be surprised if the same mechanism does something about changing line breaks into `<p>` tags. I'll just mention that when editing human-readable text in emacs (as I often do when documenting the code I write), I've developed a habit of putting two spaces (not one) between a period and the next word, because if I don't do that, emacs' line-wrap strategy won't allow a line break after that period. It's weird, but there is a traditional "rule of style", dating back to the days of typewriters and fixed-width-font printers, that mandated two spaces at every sentence boundary inside a paragraph. (Who remembers that cover art for an issue of the Perl Journal, showing the start of a perl installation log on an Underwood typewriter? That one was my all-time favorite.)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: For thought: "Perl in the greater context of (me and) the software business by choroba (Cardinal) on Mar 23, 2013 at 10:03 UTC
You can set `sentence-end-double-space` to `nil` to make Emacs forget about double spaces (but using `M-a` and `M-e` then gets a bit less convenient because they stop at every period, even after an abbreviation). لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: For thought: "Perl in the greater context of (me and) the software business by LanX (Saint) on Mar 23, 2013 at 11:36 UTC
> I've developed a habit of putting two spaces (not one) between a period and the next word, because if I don't do that, emacs' line-wrap strategy won't allow a line break after that period. Wow, I didn't expect to learn something so valuable in this thread! Thanks a lot! =) Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply]