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I really wish ASCII delimited text didn't die off. https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimite
by corysama 10y ago
I really wish ASCII delimited text didn't die off.
https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/ https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-form...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7474600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7474600
But, it suffered from not having designated keys on common keyboards, therefore it wasn't obviously necessary for plain text editors to support. Meanwhile, everyone uses plain text editors for everything --even if it means jumping through hoops full of exceptions and corner cases to pretend they can handle more than plain text.