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Prevent Two Spaces from Being Replaced by a Period/Dot in VS Code on a Mac

September 2025

I'm using AutoTyper1 to for an Introduction to bitty2 video with VS Code. I kept having a problem where two spaces turned into a period. This doesn't happen in my other apps. The fix was to toggle off the switch in:

System Settings App
> Keyboard 
> Text Input
> Input Sources - Edit
> Add period with double-space

Here's screenshots

The macOS System Settings App showing with the Keyboard section opened. The Edit button in the Text Input - Input Sources button is circled in red
The Input Sources pop up dialog window with a red circle around the toggle switch for the Add period with double space item

I feel like I'd turned that off before. Maybe not. Or, maybe it's one of those things that got turned back on in a system update. Whatever. Togging it off fixed the issue.

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References

This is the place where I found the solution. It didn't come up in my searches when I had VS Code in the search term for some reason.

This was the original page I found talking about the problem. The solution listed there is to run a command line update to fix it. It felt like that shouldn't be necessary so I kept poking around.

The post is from 2022. Quite possible the menu option wasn't there at the time. Who knows... I've added a comment to the post with the screenshots.

Footnotes

1 ⤴

The little mac app I wrote to automatically type into an app to make screen recordings look nicer.

2 ⤴

The web component I built to make it easier to make web pages with functionality.