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		willtemperley 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fine, I'll build my own text editor Yes, but ... Sometimes there are genuine reasons to build a text editor. It's really hard to build a full WYSIWYG graphics editor without modelling text layout yourself, especially for more advanced work like properly curving the text.
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hippietrail 9 days ago [–]

Every coder/developer/programmer/software engineer should write a text editor at least once.

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