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"A wall of text" used to mean a large body of text, unparagraphed and hard to follow. The author's prose may not conform to all points of Strunk & White, but it
by pvdebbe 11y ago
"A wall of text" used to mean a large body of text, unparagraphed and hard to follow. The author's prose may not conform to all points of Strunk & White, but it doesn't look a wall of text to me.
(The youngsters these days! :)
- bechampion 11y agomate no matter you're age , that's a wall of text.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoPaste it into vi/m or a faithful clone then perform the following command. :%s/\n//
- JupiterMoon 11y agoPaste it into vi/m or a faithful clone then perform the following command. :%s/\n// Then it would become a 'wall of text' now it is just lots of paragraphs.
- to3m 11y agoGod help you if you ever pick up a book ;) (A book is like a Steve Yegge blog post, or maybe a Mencius Moldbug one, but printed out in a thing that looks a bit like a large version of a Moleskine. Maybe ask your grandparents.)
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- OJFord 11y agoWell, allow me to use it here to mean _unstyled and largely unformatted_. Surely you'd admit that it's not like most, and all great, `readme.md`s?
- pvdebbe 11y agoIf the content is good, there's no need for fancy styles or images. In this case, though, the content is not super duber either. But I wouldn't call it a wall of text, especially with paragraphs so small.