@enf Did you ever research the origin story of the backtick?
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Right, yes, exactly
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That’s super interesting. Are there any computers outside of PLATO that actually supported on-screen overprinting? (Was Compose ever universal?)
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It seems like some decisions made more sense when computers came with printers, not displays? But we inherited them.
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Yes the entire model of using backspace for composition was tied to printing terminals, but some parts of it lived on longer because programs like less(1) go out of their way to transform backspaced underlining and bold into escape sequences
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