roarApr 20, 2017

This is an example of a revolutionary new document
format called "Plain Text". Some of the features of this format are:

* supported by every editor!
* requires no internet connection!
* editable on any device, from your phone to your TV!
* simple to backup and restore!
* compare documents with "diff"!
* search documents with "grep"!
* can be modified programaticaly using "sed" and "awk"!
* Plain-text supports every version control system out there!

Try plain-text today!

Show threadAsh WeststarApr 21, 2017
@roar saying it's supported by every editor... Clearly you haven't had to deal with issues with line endings, different text encodings or even big endian vs little endian. I've had plenty of incompatible editors over the years.
Show threadroar

@Ash yes, I've had to deal with issues over the years, and most were easily solved with standard tools. You can't say that about proprietary formats that lock your data up in a magical cloud database.

Anyway, it was just a dumb post to vent my grumpiness at confluence, I wasn't aiming for accuracy

Apr 21, 2017 at 8:19amWeb