Escaping the Nightmare of Pasted Text: WYSINWLB
2025-06-19
The author encountered the frustrating task of manually untangling nested `` and `` tags from pasted content. The formatting was a mess, machine-generated for appearance rather than semantic correctness, rendering the text nearly uneditable. The author argues this poor editing experience would cause average users to give up, coining the term "WYSINWLB: What You See Is Not What Lies Beneath" to highlight the problem of pasted text's deceptive simplicity.
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