Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 23:13 this Friday (GMT):

On 05 Oct 2024 10:37:26 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>

I'm writing for myself but I really need a version control tool. I'm
using git because it's good, I could use something else. But I really
need something.

>
Version control works best for plain-text files. So if you are writing
documentation or fiction or something else that’s going to end up
formatted in something approaching typeset quality, it becomes difficult
to use a conventional WYSIWYG word processor, because they keep all their
data in binary formats.

I think technically, a lot of those use a renamed ZIP format.

This is why software developers like to use plain-text formats like
Markdown, troff, TEX, HTML, SGML etc.

I prefer plaintext formats because you can use any editor.
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