From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19725 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2005 15:15:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Received: (qmail 19710 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jun 2005 15:15:54 -0000 Received: from c-66-30-17-189.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.17.189) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:15:54 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id D471A13C0A8; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:15:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:59:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Subject: Re: My Spacebar is OK! Message-ID: <20050610151552.GG7942@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List References: <000901c56da7$78c10990$bf2fb5d5@keloasc60pobkb> <20050610135326.GD7942@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42A9AC34.9000302@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42A9AC34.9000302@familiehaase.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00404.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 05:05:24PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Here's how it works: >> >>Two spaces after ".", one space after ",". No space before "." or "," >>and it's "something" not " something " . > ^^^ obviously >there are exceptions possible;) I was actually setting out the examples for effect and was trying to use a minimal number of words since the person was a non-English speaker. I should have known not to get involved in this kind of thing, though. It *ALWAYS* devolves into "I don't use two spaces" and "You made a mistake so why are you telling me what to do" scenarios. cgf