On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:09:23PM -0800, Steven Brust wrote: > An artifact of the typewriter. Words or phrases "struck out" with a slash > so they could still be read, the humor coming from the idea that the author > had first written something and then changed his mind, but you could see > his original thought. > > "You'll be at Westercon? Great! I look forward to s/e/d/u/c/i/n/g/ meeting > you." Aha, gotcha. In my (unix geek :-) circles, we typically use "^W" (the default value of the 'werase' (word erase) terminal control character) to indicate this: "You'll be at Westercon? Great! I look forward to seducing^Wmeeting you." Another (bad) habit is using "sed" expressions to indicate changes to text: > I think that's really clever. s/clever/misguided/ I.e., replace "clever" with "misguided"; this is about equivalent to "I think you misspelled 'misguided'.". Thanks for the clarification, N.