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wafflemaker 32 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed...

>In emacs, c-x 8 RET prompts you for unicode character names (or hex)[...]

Which is super useful for hard space - non line-breaking space - so that one letter words don't appear at the end of lines.

Syntonicles 32 days ago [–]

Huh, I always wondered what that was for...

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