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		chc on April 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought... I think both sound equally valid. One sort of expands to "a GUI editor for plain text" in my mind and the other is more like "a plain text editor with a GUI."

jrochkind1 on April 3, 2021 [–]

"plaintext gui editor" sounds like you are editing GUIs... in plaintext? Maybe a plaintext markup language for GUI's... I guess that's what HTML is!

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