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Emacs eats spaces at end of line!

**ing hell. Just when you get something to work, something else that never worked still doesn't work!

It turns out that Emacs just silently deletes spaces at the end of a line, unless you fidget around by inserting such spaces but _NOT_ pressing <enter>. Yeah, backspace or arrow over after typing, enter the spaces, and quietly, on your tippitoes cursor away from that spot. Shush everyone around you -- you are doing an important task, and don't want to anger your master.

My game, SpellBinding uses a format that separates words by spaces. So the last word was sometimes disappeared by Emacs. Sometimes I would notice, and fix it by inserting a space and saying 'how did this happen?'.

That does it. I really don't want to use Emacs. Except for Common Lisp you kind of have no choice. Maybe I will give Vlime, Slimv or Limp another try. Sometimes I wonder why I do anything at all...

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