Re: Highlight and annotate plaintext

Julius,


On 2021-06-08 21:54, Julius Hamilton wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Does anyone know a good command line tool for highlighting and
> annotating plain text documents? Not syntax highlighting via pattern
> matching. Just going through a document with a cursor, and
> highlighting it for the purpose of note-taking. Plus adding comments
> would be good, but optional.


By definition you can't put extra information into "plain text" files.
Some decades on DOS we used to put extra info like this at the end of
the file preceded by a CTRL-Z - so it would like a "plain text" file to
the OS but there was "invisible" appended information that do nice
things with the text.

I don't know if anyone does anything resembling this now - off the top
of my head, in *nix you could have the plain text file associated with
another file eg:

PlainTextFile.txt

with and attributes file:

PlainTextFile.attrib

? - if this could work, you just need to find someone who is interested
in writing the software for it . . of course this highlighting etc would
only display sensibly in this new software . .

Regards,

Phil.

> Thanks very much,
> Julius
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