Wow, that's interesting.

No idea what you did. Perhaps a Find & Replace? However, I don't know
how you could easily do a Replace All, replacing all spaces with more
spaces, without making at least a couple concurrent mistakes -- which
might be the case if it was late at night.

Anyway, for #2: what is supposed to be between the words? Is it normal
text, with one space between each word? And, as the other responses
have asked, is the new whitespace really just a bunch of spaces, as
opposed to spaces and/or tabs and/or newlines?

For that matter, what kind of document is it? Normal text or HTML or what?

If all of the additional crud is spaces, then fix it with a find &
replace. Work on a duplicate in case we manage to make it worse. :-)
find: " +"  (a space followed by a plus)
replace: " " (a single space)

or find "[ \t]" (space & \t) if you need to get rid of both spaces and
tabs, but of course that would kill indentation for sure.

... Google Kreme's response seems cheeky, but he's right. If you
haven't closed the document since last night, undo! keep undoing until
you get past that point. If it ever happens again, leap for the undo
key! I've run multiple find & replaces by mistake; undoing repeatedly
does solve the problem!  As for solving it after the fact: I think
find & replace, coupled with the Format command (at least, for HTML)
will become your friends.

For #4: Being a web developer, I'm rendering the code in my head
better and better every day. I don't see multiple spaces as ugly; they
all render as a single space. Beauty is in the overly-geeky eye of the
beholder.

On 7/10/07, Joe Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Folks,

Last night I was typing in BBEdit and I managed to fumble finger some key press 
that caused my entire file to have various numbers of spaces inserted between 
words. Naturally, I hadn't saved for about 20 minutes worth of typing.

Four things:

1. What did I do?
2. How can I undo it?
3. Can I set a preference to disallow it?
4. What use is such a god-awful looking document?

Kind Regards,
--

Joe Walters:
To know, and not to do, is not yet to know

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