that is the reason to be using them, in which case, the question becomes, why are you using a monospace font
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because i'm posting on bluesky. see? this is a monospaced world.
jul 7, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
I write with vi, in the same terminal windows I write code in. I never developed the finger memory for any other way of writing, though occasionally I do mess up and do editor-friendly sentences.
jul 7, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
:%s/ / /g
jul 7, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, but why? fmt -s | sed -e 's/\. +/. /g' works better than that because it doesn't mangle your source document. (I should really write a discount variant that will format & manual-of-style to plaintext.)
jul 7, 2025, 3:11 am • 1 0 • view