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A more intuitive norm, used in other formats, would have been : *bold* /italics/ _underline_

• lelanthran 9mo ago
  That's exactly what we used in on usenet (except,without rendering unless you were using a nice GUI reader, not just tin/rtin) The problem is that that's too many characters to reserve (they all have to be escaped when you want the actual character) making the resulting text look awful in plain text mode.
  • deleted 9mo ago
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  • mlok 9mo ago
    They are not reserved characters. They only express a special format when used in that way : a space on its left, and a character stuck to its right AND somewhere down the road : its twin with a character stuck to its left and a space on its right. I built an editor doing just that more than two decades ago, and it works fine. So *this* and /that/ express formatting, but not 4 * 5 nor 4*5 nor 4/5 nor m/s.
• adityaathalye 9mo ago
  +strikeout+ ~code/monospace~ _subscript * Heading ** Heading 2 ** Heading 3 - bullet - [1/2] checklist summary - [ ] unchecked item - [X] checked item And so much more... I see you, mlok, you fellow person of culture :)
  • NooneAtAll3 9mo ago
    no-no-no -strikeout- `code` and bloody leave "-" as a dash. I so hate that it gets transformed into a dot for "bullet enthusiasts"
    • syene 9mo ago
      The two previous comments in this thread are referencing Emacs Org mode's markup syntax.
• yencabulator 9mo ago
  Lots of geeks regularly talk about storing configuration files under /etc/.