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by noduerme 1635 days ago
Although a multipage text editor would be rather charmingly annoying.
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That sounds like a charming mess.

Each keypress would direct you to a new URL derived from a hash of the new text, an approach that takes advantage of browser history to provide a built-in undo function. Fans of this “content-addressable text editor” say it reminds them that writing is ultimately a grand exploration of Borges’ Library of Babel.