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[david parsons]

In article <20090504101943.J24560 at maniac.deathstar.org>,
John Kipling Lewis  <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:


>It's common practice to add^H^H^H put these makes in for clarity.


    Common practice where?   I used to see that construction on
    usenet, and occasionally I use it in mail, but in my experience
    the whole point of typing out ^H & ^W is so that your reader
    will see it and be amused by what you're writing.

    (I occasionally use strikethrough when writing on weblogs, but I
    don't think it looks as good as the visual attempt to frantically
    backspace over some intemperate but true invective.)

    And from a usability point of view, I don't think it's all that
    great because you'd need to keep track of how many characters you're
    backspacing over.


    -david parsons