In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king^Wa dangerous heretic^W^W^Wangry that no one cares about visual design.
[where ^W represents the EMACS “delete word” command and my annoyance at LW’s lack of a strikethrough formatting option]
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king a dangerous heretic angry that no one cares about visual design.
That what you meant?
The standard digraph visualization for U+0008 BACKSPACE is ^H.
Those aren’t backspaces.
I’ll concede the point that I forgot the unicode hex code.
However, I have just now checked in Vim, less, wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace#^H and The jargon file (text search for ^H).
No, those literally aren’t backspaces. They’re
the EMACS “delete word” command
according to the OP.
ETA: … and according to the Wikipedia article you cited as well. So there’s that.
I’ve taken to using not very subtle subtext.
Huh, I expected strikethrough to work like it does on Reddit, but alas...
Use this.
What lack of strikethrough formatting?
I suppose modifying a proverb thus may count as quoting myself, in which case I offer to retract this one upon nonzero level of consensus that I’ve broken the rules.
I think you’re breaking the rules.
You could post that in the Best 15 Words thread instead.
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king^Wa dangerous heretic^W^W^Wangry that no one cares about visual design.
[where ^W represents the EMACS “delete word” command and my annoyance at LW’s lack of a strikethrough formatting option]
That what you meant?
The standard digraph visualization for U+0008 BACKSPACE is ^H.
Those aren’t backspaces.
I’ll concede the point that I forgot the unicode hex code.
However, I have just now checked in Vim, less, wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace#^H and The jargon file (text search for ^H).
No, those literally aren’t backspaces. They’re
according to the OP.
ETA: … and according to the Wikipedia article you cited as well. So there’s that.
I’ve taken to using
not very subtle subtext.Huh, I expected strikethrough to work like it does on Reddit, but alas...
Use this.
What lack of strikethrough formatting?
I suppose modifying a proverb thus may count as quoting myself, in which case I offer to retract this one upon nonzero level of consensus that I’ve broken the rules.
I think you’re breaking the rules.
You could post that in the Best 15 Words thread instead.