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   MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 17:26:48 JST MattZ
   Line as a concept for computers is stupid and so are line-oriented editors.
   It's a bottleneck create by the unix system that have persisted to this day, plaguing the future of text editing.
   
   People have grown accustomed to it that they don't even question it anymore.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 17:26:48 JST 翠星石

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     @colinsmatt11 So, what do you recommend instead of terminating by newlines - terminating with null characters?
     
     Computers don't have unlimited memory, so you have to limit the size of arrays after all.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 17:30:50 JST 翠星石

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     @colinsmatt11 Good thing the Unix replacement - GNU's Not Unix exists (it's not a derivative either).
     
     I don't like Unix and its derivatives, as they're all proprietary software.
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     MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 17:30:51 JST MattZ

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     What I mean is that digital text should have structure but line is a construct preventing proper structure, it's a limitation of physical world forced upon the digital to ease the transition, it's a hindrance to pure abstract text manipulation.
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     MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 17:30:51 JST MattZ

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     Every passing day, my hatred for unix and it's derivatives grow further.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 17:35:46 JST 翠星石

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     @colinsmatt11 Freedom hating infidel detected?
     
     By the way, GNU Emacs is not line-orientated - you can do operations on words, sentences, paragraphs or pages if you want - but it does default to handling lines, as that's what you usually want to edit.
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     MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 17:35:47 JST MattZ

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     @Suiseiseki I don't mean derivatives in usual sense but also including things inspired from it.