Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:54:21PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> "John" == John Griffiths <johnboy@the-riotact.com> writes:
>
> John> Travis Crump wrote:
> >> Is this a troll? I prefer vim, a good number of people prefer
> >> emacs. Both will suit your needs.
> >>
> >>
>
> John> No, not a troll, I want to know if any of the editors are
> John> aimed at writers rather than coders,
>
> emacs is a least equally aimed at writers writing plain text or text
> in a markup language (TeX, HTML, SGML, troff, email, etc.).
>
> The quoting above, [...] were all done by emacs.
Yes, I can tell. :( I even have a special vim macro to get rid of that
damned emacs-style (SuperCite/PowerQuote) quoting, as it goes nuts once
you're a few levels deep ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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