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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2025-02-06 00:14:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   It can use extensions which convert binary data to text, then edit the   
   text and when saving the text it will be converted back to binary data.   
      
      
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