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Write Plain Text Files
- eimrine 3y agoA treasure in my collection of articles about a plain text.
- behnamoh 3y agoI'd say all these benefits also exist for markdown files. On top of that, you can easily turn a md into an HTML, no parser needed. I love the simplicity of text files and I think md provides nice syntax sugar for txt files.
- bediger4000 3y agoDo "byte order marks" fall into the domain of plain text files? If so, how should I consider them? They're usually not visible in a text editor (even vim), which means that simple file concatenation could produce bizarre results if one concatenated a little-endian (UTF-16) with a big-endian file.
- u_name 3y agoAt first i was like "What?! Do we really need a tutorial on how to write and keep text files?!". But then i realized, that some coworkers of mine were astonished and intrigued by the idea that i keep random notes in simple textfiles (although not in such a tidy hierarchy, but just using the current date as filename).