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by binary132 582 days ago
Code is not only used in modern editors. Sometimes it is used in HTML, sometimes it is used in emailed patches, sometimes it is read as plaintext in some other context, it may be read or manipulated over a remote shell session in a terminal that has only rudimentary tools available during a production problem. There are many contexts where source code should be cleanly and clearly formatted and comprehensible without assistance from modern GUIs.