# ISNT PLAINTEXT COOL? ---------- 04-06-2024 hi there! plaintext (and pre html tags) allows you to just write. wherever you want and however you want. so it allows you to do stuff like this! and i think its pretty cool that you are able to just able to write like this. _______ < it is > ------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || || yeah, it is. but its a little annoying that a lot of programs trims spaces and tabs. stuff like html usually trims all the spaces, so that you usually cant have double space in html. luckily, this can be circumvented by using pre tags. which is what press does similarly, markdown also trims spaces and tabs. as much as i like markdown, this can make it quite annoying. its always a reminder that markdown isnt truly plain text, even as close as it gets. stuff like this makes it a lot harder to actually... work with plain text (because all the good apps trims). unless you want to work on stuff like notepad, you're a little out of luck. (for the record, i use micro, which is a terminal-based editor) but i think its still cool. maybe you do too.