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		dleslie on March 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vernor Vinge has died Based on the modeline, it's just text-mode using RCS as version control. It must be a minor mode that he wrote.

yencabulator on March 23, 2024 [–]

Based on what I read in the annotations mentioned above, I didn't see any implication of software support for his special markup beyond using search etc basic text editing features.

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