Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anton Shepelev Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic terms Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:11:23 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: <20250220151123.7073383bd7c11431cad67424@g{oogle}mail.com> References: <_VidnePYj72dpy_6nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@supernews.com> <20250217193414.9e5a91ad3b0cf94444e3a693@g{oogle}mail.com> <20250217190600.6f196a9f367077778b1033e2@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:11:23 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8c8d53bd195fb0879fb018478937cfed"; logging-data="2970546"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX198K6y9+FX92NXsnl60qUPrJOawU5d2Za8=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jp5koQQy4d5VZ5ggfXqATtGEyKU= X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32) Bytes: 2334 Kerr-Mudd, John to Anton Shepelev: > > This article is made in Windows XP: written in > > RPad32, > > nearly 400k for a mere notepad treplacement ?! > - ah maybe cyrillic support takes it there. It has lots of nifty features in addition to suport- ing the five main Cyrilic encodings, but none of those seem to justify the size, which may be due to the reliance on some third-party rich-text compo- nent. I never cared. > > formatted with GNU Troff, > > formatting? feh, a few linewraps is easy. Sometimes I also use autonumbered lists, tables, display environments, footnotes, headers, justifica- tion and hyphenation (here), &c. I typeset the CoreOps newsletter in nroff: https://corewar.co.uk/coreops/coreops02.txt Otherwise, Vim's "gq" formatter or a similar exter- nal utility usually does the job. -- () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments