[MatthTheGeek]

I suggest you read what I say before answering next time. Thank you.

[The E]

I read everything in this thread.  It is still stupid. Whether there's one space after a sentence or not is literally not important for anything. It's a thing some people do, it's not wrong in any way, just somewhat unusual. It is squarely in the realm of "Here's a silly thing we can argue about on the internet".

[MatthTheGeek]

Exactly. So why are you arguing it? I'm just proposing an obvious solution that can satisfy all parties involved, instead of any one enforcing their preference to the other party. If you think diplomacy is stupid, then suck to be you.

[Lorric]

Goober uses two spaces in his sentences here. I guess he does it all the time. I would never have noticed if it hadn't been pointed out. But it doesn't bother me in the slightest. On pen and paper, everyone will use different size spaces, so what does it matter if someone uses different sized spaces on a computer? A space is a space.

[Mongoose]

I learned the double-space convention all the way back when we had typing classes in grade school, and I've generally used it whenever I'm typing up something formally ever since.  I never really thought to ask why it was that way, though.

[Lorric]

I learned the double-space convention all the way back when we had typing classes in grade school, and I've generally used it whenever I'm typing up something formally ever since.  I never really thought to ask why it was that way, though.

Ha ha, you people are going to make me start noticing those double spaces now...

You know, I remember when I first started typing that I thought the spaces were too small, compared to the spaces I'd leave when writing. It seemed like the words were sort of cramped and crushed together. But I soon got used to it.

[Yarn]

The idea mentioned in this post isn't turning out to be such a good idea. Since BBCode is not case-sensitive (try using random case for code tags; they'll still work), both [fs2_open.log] and [Fs2_open.log] start with a lowercase P. This is causing pretty much every request for a log file to use improper capitalization, even if the poster uses a capital F in the tag.

[Goober5000]

Ugh.  It violates the principle of least astonishment to have smileys be case-sensitive and bbcode not.

[Goober5000]

I've changed it so that [fs2_open.log] is back to being uppercase, same as it was originally, and [lfs2_open.log] is in lowercase (it's the token preceded by an L).  Same with [fred2_open.log], [fsolog], and [fredlog].  This isn't really ideal, so if anyone has any other suggestions for distinguishing the two tags, I'd be happy to hear them.

[AdmiralRalwood]

* AdmiralRalwood resists the urge to go back and edit every instance of his having used [fs2_open.log] with [lfs2_open.log].

[Grizzly]

Can't you make an bot which does this automatically?

[Phantom Hoover]

Can you please switch it to using one space rather than two, I know it seems petty but most people format text that way and the inconsistency drives me mad.

[AdmiralRalwood]

Can you please switch it to using one space rather than two, I know it seems petty but most people format text that way and the inconsistency drives me mad.

I feel like we just had this conversation.

[Phantom Hoover]

Aye, and nothing was done about it.

[Goober5000]

Because I had intentionally used two spaces when I added the bbcode feature, and I don't intend to change it.  In this situation, my idiosyncratic preferences trump yours.

[Phantom Hoover]

Mine and, like, the entire rest of the board.

[MatthTheGeek]

I don't really care, I just thought it was a genuine error, since I didn't know the two spaces was actually a thing (I still find it hard to believe, but whatev').

[karajorma]

**** it. I just won't use the tag. 2 spaces is retarded.

[Luis Dias]

my only complaint is, I can't ever remember the bbcode properly. a button would be great.