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Some clarification: ASCII is not a format, it's an encoding. You are referring to "plain text" vs. HTML. For the rest of what you've written, this feels like a

Some clarification: ASCII is not a format, it's an encoding. You are referring to "plain text" vs. HTML. For the rest of what you've written, this feels like a million times more complicated than using markdown.

1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
"You are referring to "plain text" vs. HTML." The term "ASCII format" in the submission title comes from the IETF Internet Standard, not me. Contact the author Vint Cerf or the IETF with objections. Not much I can do to change an Internet Standard. In this comment, I never used the term "ASCII format". I used the term "HTML format". What is "markdown". Word play on the term "markup".
- hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
  You are misunderstanding: 1. ASCII simply defines a byte encoding to represent characters. E.g. UTF-8 is another character encoding. HTML files are often written in ASCII. 2. Markdown is a very common standard for representing minimal formatting in a plain text file: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
  - 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
    Thanks, I understand now. For personal documentation, I prefer files of MIME type "text/plain" rather than "text/html". For text encoding, I prefer 7-bit ASCII. I do most reading in textmode. I generally dislike use of UTF-8. I dislike use of ANSI escape sequences to enhance text. These are my preferences, not necessarily anyone else's. Markdown has extra garbage in the file. No different than tags in HTML. RFC 7763 describes markdown as "lightweight markup". In the comment I am describing keeping extra garbage in a separate file. Although I have thought about storing the contents of the less history file at the top of the document, sort of like a table of contents, then extract it to a less history file when I want to read the document with less.

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Some clarification: ASCII is not a format, it's an encoding. You are referring to "plain text" vs. HTML. For the rest of what you've written, this feels like a

by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago

1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
"You are referring to "plain text" vs. HTML." The term "ASCII format" in the submission title comes from the IETF Internet Standard, not me. Contact the author Vint Cerf or the IETF with objections. Not much I can do to change an Internet Standard. In this comment, I never used the term "ASCII format". I used the term "HTML format". What is "markdown". Word play on the term "markup".
- hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
  You are misunderstanding: 1. ASCII simply defines a byte encoding to represent characters. E.g. UTF-8 is another character encoding. HTML files are often written in ASCII. 2. Markdown is a very common standard for representing minimal formatting in a plain text file: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
  - 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
    Thanks, I understand now. For personal documentation, I prefer files of MIME type "text/plain" rather than "text/html". For text encoding, I prefer 7-bit ASCII. I do most reading in textmode. I generally dislike use of UTF-8. I dislike use of ANSI escape sequences to enhance text. These are my preferences, not necessarily anyone else's. Markdown has extra garbage in the file. No different than tags in HTML. RFC 7763 describes markdown as "lightweight markup". In the comment I am describing keeping extra garbage in a separate file. Although I have thought about storing the contents of the less history file at the top of the document, sort of like a table of contents, then extract it to a less history file when I want to read the document with less.