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Back when SubEthaEdit was new, I was a writer on a comedy show. Many afternoons, our team of 4 to 6 writers would get into something like a competitive I-can-fi

Back when SubEthaEdit was new, I was a writer on a comedy show. Many afternoons, our team of 4 to 6 writers would get into something like a competitive I-can-finish-you-joke-before-you-do edit war. I don't remember ever again being paid for having that much fun. But that only worked before SubEthaEdit worked absolutely flawlessly with anything we threw at it. You'd have two people editing the same word, yet it never occurred to anybody that we weren't actually all playing with the same piece of clay. (Moral of the story: "nobody would ever want to that" is a self-fulfilling prophecy)

codingdave 9y ago
Yes, you are correct - I meant nobody in my specific user community. There certainly are other audiences who would edit documents differently than my authors did....
hokus 9y ago
That formula should be extend to involve a live audience each having a tomato launching siege engine at the bottom of the window. From the audience perspective the tomato is flying away, from the to be comedian perspective they are flying towards his screen obscuring his vision proportionally. Then add a gradual set of laugh samples to represent the number of observers who pressed the "yes, that was funny" button. For the jokes with the highest powerlevel animal sounds should be mixed in. Lets call the invention The Funny Royal.