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Re:Getting to Xanadu by unhammer on Saturday December 08, 2018 @05:11PM (#18637845)
Re: atomicity and the regex hack, https://github.com/abingham/spor (based on https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259892218_Metadata_... ) seems like a better solution that manages to keep annotations "stuck to" a logical piece of text (well, code) even if it changes position/form throughout history.

There's a very short presentation about the method at https://doc-00-24-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/d... (or https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/167z6GWl_mehmUdi6Qlkj... if those google docs download links aren't stable)

Re:Getting to Xanadu by mimixco on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @01:41PM (#18666512)
Mimix atoms are based on the actual, typed text -- not the logical values, and changes to that text or its formatting are kept separate from the original text by virtue of the MSL, Mimix Stream Language, which is used to describe them. Although I hate RegEx, I can't see any compelling advantage in the Spor toolkit. In any case, I'm predisposed to use things that folks already know for simplicity and lowering barriers to entry.