longlivebooks

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   by longlivebooks 4y ago

   Sad to see distutils going away. I have very old projects which use distutils for distribution. Wrote them in Python 2 days and they were ported easily to Python 3. But distutils going away is going to break them. I know setuptools is advan
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   by longlivebooks 4y ago

   > And even Emacs doesn't allow for floating windows/dialogs, nor does it show text-mode scrollbars or windowing widgets. However, the floating window had its downsides. They hid what was behind the window and modals, so if you
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   by longlivebooks 4y ago

   What if we had a world where digital books were just .txt files? E-book readers can format the book with any font, margins, or layout they want, but the book itself is just a plain text file. Is such a world possible? I believe that simple