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> While we might have some common idea what is text, we definitely not have common semantics!

Funny, that makes me think of the new Wikitext editor that the Wikimedia Foundation is developing. [1]

They are using the previous Visual editor infrastructure, and they are having problems because features that make sense for a rich text editor are creeping into the plain-text code editor (such as unwanted copy-pasting of styling code).

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2017_wikitext_editor



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