Prosthetic Conscience

Underappreciated emacs function: just-one-space

I want to very briefly praise the probably-underappreciated emacs command just-one-space. It is on M-SPC by default, and what it does is replace all the spaces and tabs around point with one space (or prefix-arg number of spaces). That’s nothing terribly fancy, but it’s one of those little things that can let you save so many keystrokes when you’re reformatting text. That and transpose-chars are among the little touches that make emacs so much more convenient than a bog-standard text editing control.

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