Post B5p6mNXTIh9J61V9gO by kevin@fedi.kbg.sh
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 (DIR) Post #B5p6gztZmMNEJrH5lY by kevin@fedi.kbg.sh
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       Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else. I constantly see obtuse command line interfaces that are worse in every way than simple GUI would be, but are preferred, I guess, on the grounds that that’s what the epic bigshot “coders” use.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5p6h07OwxQt0jk8Jc by kevin@fedi.kbg.sh
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       Also: as anyone who has followed my work will know, the “simplicity” of plain text is illusory. Like I recently saw a “text editor” that explicitly had RTL text “out of scope.” That’s not a text editor, that’s an English editor. You can make anything simple by being a cultural chauvinist!
       
 (DIR) Post #B5p6h0J6FSn3b1DTY8 by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @kevinhow about an ASCII editor?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5p6mNXTIh9J61V9gO by kevin@fedi.kbg.sh
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       @wolf480pl fair enough, not “text” though
       
 (DIR) Post #B5p7glsbzLJynyHP04 by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @kevinnot in the everyday sense of the wordthere is a specialist sense of the word in the context of IT that roughly means "any sequence of bytes that can be both unabiguously typed on most computer keyboards, and unambiguously displayed on most computer screens", though the set of computer keyboards, screens, and extra software that can be involved in it is somewhat context-dependent
       
 (DIR) Post #B5p7wrTGy42wmO6G3s by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @kevinI think the latter meaning would benefit from a better term and a better definition, but I'm not aware of anyone who understands the usefulness of that format well enough to formalize what it is.