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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Arno Welzel   
   Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portab   
   05 Feb 25 23:14:19   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 10:30:23 +0100, Arno Welzel wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2025-02-03 04:01:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 15:07:34 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Because "editor" to me is a text editor ...   
   >>   
   >> Emacs is an editor, and not just a text editor. I have successfully   
   >> used it to edit non-text files.   
   >   
   > To be more precise: it is a text editor which can be extended to   
   > interpret the syntax of text stored in a file - like Markdown. But you   
   > can not edit videos or bitmap graphics with it, since it is still a   
   > *text* based editor.   
      
   It can edit files containing arbitrary binary data.   
      
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