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From: mcgrath%paris.Berkeley.EDU@GINGER.BERKELEY.EDU (Roland McGrath)
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Subject: SPC in auto-fill-mode
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Date: 24 May 89 03:22:27 GMT
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In auto-fill-mode, at the end of a line at least twice fill-column chars
wide, hitting SPC only splits the line once, forcing you to hit another SPC
to break it again.  If you have one line 3000 chars long, you will have to hit
SPC 40 times or something to get the whole thing within fill-column.