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Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose



On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:32, John Griffiths wrote:
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> Roberto Sanchez wrote:
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> > vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your
> > prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a
> > bunch of others.
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> Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to write in
> is english (ok, australian english - close) and i want it to be read,
> primarily, by people, not interpreters or compilers.
> 
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> 
> - --
> 
> "I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The
> greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of
> crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in
> concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its
> final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved,
> seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed
> and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars
> and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need
> to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol
> for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state
> or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
> 
> - - C. S. Lewis
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For prose, I have used something called Underwood - yep, a typewriter.
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