A different kind of interface

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:17:57 -0800, bearophileHUGS wrote:

> Ben Finney:
> 
>> Many of us solve this by using a single full-featured programmer's
>> editor that allows invoking a program +IBQ- written in any of *dozens
>> or hundreds* of different languages +IBQ- from within the editor.
> 
> I don't know what an IBQ is.

+IBQ- seems to be the way your newsreader displays the dashes that where 
in Ben's posting.  I see "em dash" characters there:

In [84]: unicodedata.name(u'—')
Out[84]: 'EM DASH'

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch