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Text files are small. Even if they saved every keystroke and you type 100 chars/second for 10 hours it's less than 3.5 megabytes.

• yan 17y ago
  Not to mention bzip or gzip compresses text like its cotton candy.
  • lsb 17y ago
    LZMA is like gzip, but with a much larger window. It's a bit slower to compress, but much better performance.