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Re:Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing lar... by adastra22 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:39PM (#42716611)
I thought the defining feature of a text editor (as opposed to a word processor) is that it didn’t have rich text decorations. Are we talking about the same thing?
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Re:Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing lar... by nicoburns on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:54PM (#42716796)
Most text editors will support things like syntax highlighting, which are text-decorations even if they're nor user-managed.
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Re:Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing lar... by neilv on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @05:51PM (#42718295)
Not rich text, but decorations like decorations on a data structure. (I was trying to match the terminology that I thought a previous commenter was using.)
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