A text editor edits text in accordance with the user's request; a program that makes unrequested changes is not a TE, but a vadal. Take wordpad - please.
As to document formatters, I don't object to e.g., changing ''foo'' to "foo" if the manual clearly and conspicuously says that it does. But I don't like surprises. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2020 2:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 2 Spaces after periods [was: RE: Rexx parse using period as placeholder] On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:43:11 +0000, Pew, Curtis G wrote: > ... >I learned the two-space rule when I started typing on my mom’s Selectric back >in the 70s, but I’ve gotten out of the habit now that word processors usually >reformat my input in any case. > Vim is an idiot. It prefers: Dr. Jones. (List.) "Quoted." etc. Initials En-space, anyone? The same intrusive formatters that pepper my source code with "typesetting" quotes. And MS Exchange has changed "BLKSIZE=6144" to "BLKSIZEa44". Spare me the Q-P, Doll. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
