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that's basically point - you can open an ascii file now because utf-8 is ascii oriented, but a utf-8 first editor will struggle with an old french text file for example. plain text…

I feel like a lot of use plain text proponents forget that outside of ASCII and now UTF-8, lots of alleged plain text documents with diacritics or non-latin characters are at least…

is your wiki still public? the link at the end of the article didn't work for me.

I don't see why you wouldn't consider graphical Emacs to be the canonical implementation. It's part of the primary codebase, several features enabled by default rely on it, and it'…

Yes. They removed a lot of the fun definitions in the nineties, but by popular demamd they were brought back!

It smells incredibly clean. The air is very pure, apparently, and it's meant to be good for your healthm I noticed this - my cold cleared up while I was there (and started again so…

In Emacs's defence, it didn't reimplement everything so mich as implement it first. When there's very little prior work to go on, often parts of the design won't be great, and then…

I'd say that it's just as common to hear "google Our Brand" as "www.brand.com" at the end of television adverts now. That's entirely anecdotal, but Google (or other search engines,…

I'm suggesting Ada because in my mind it satisfies a similar niche to Rust, but offers a different perspective to Rust. Also I like it more. Ada is part of the Pascal family, but g…

Maybe not. As I say, I don't use it, but perhaps I'm not so immune to the hype of it as I thought.

It's a general-purpose programming language, so it can be used for most projects. Most problems can be solved with most languages, sure, but rust is fast and "safe", so people floc…

Emacs. It's such a mess, but nothing else comes close.

~/tmp - desktop and downloads, mounted as tmpfs. ~/usr/text - pdfs and text files with name format author-title, no hierarchy ~/usr/projects - each project, not sorted by language …

> we can have a "markdown web" with less complex clients You might want to check out the Gemini protocol[1]. [1] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/