On Tue, Apr 19, 2016, at 13:43, Tim Chase wrote: > Well, let's take a look at their native file formats: > > Inkscape: SVG > > Libreoffice: compressed XML > > Firefox: HTML+CSS+JS > > Musescore: compressed text > > Dia: compressed XML
None of those are "text" in the sense being discussed here, which is "preferred method of viewing and editing is a text editor". You could, for example, design a programming language that uses XML markup to associate comments with specific positions in the code and the editor displays them in little callout boxes when you hover over them with the mouse. That's not done because of the notion that code has to be plain text. The fact that the resulting format would still be a text format that could theoretically be edited with a text editor isn't relevant to this discussion. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
