diff --git a/.config/kak/autoload/paragraph.kak b/.config/kak/autoload/paragraph.kak
index 574262a6..e41dff51 100644
--- a/.config/kak/autoload/paragraph.kak
+++ b/.config/kak/autoload/paragraph.kak
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 declare-user-mode paragraph
 declare-option -hidden str paragraph_select '<a-a>pj[p'
 declare-option -hidden str reflow_cmd %{
-    fmt -u | sed -E 's/([.!?])  +/\1 /g'
+    fmt -u | perl -CS -pe 's/([.!?])\s{2,}/\1 /g'
+    # fmt -u | sed -E 's/([.!?])  +/\1 /g'
 }
 
 define-command format-paragraph %{
diff --git a/.config/kak/kakrc b/.config/kak/kakrc
index 70dd17f1..a15c3ef1 100644
--- a/.config/kak/kakrc
+++ b/.config/kak/kakrc
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ try %{
     set-option global reflow_command %{
     	cat > "${input=$(mktemp)}"
     	# reflow --width "$kak_opt_reflow_width" --tabstop "$kak_opt_tabstop" < "$input" || cat "$input"
-    	fmt -u < "$input" || cat "$input"
+    	fmt -u < "$input" | perl -CS -pe 's/([.!?])\s{2,}/\1 /g' || cat "$input"
     	rm -f "$input"
     }