> Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > vim, emacs, pico, nano, ... these are all text editors. How you format > > your text is up to you. (This was written in vim.) > > > > Yep, OK. > > what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used > something like this to write 5,000 word plus english language documents.
Here's my personal take: Vi is king for programming (imho), and I use it for the majority of my text processing. However, I find that for writing long documents , it tends to lose out to emac. Not having to switch frequently between modes is a great plus, and emacs makes it easier to navigate within a large block of text without line breaks. Jesse S. Bangs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/ http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/blog Jesus asked them, "Who do you say that I am?" And they answered, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the kerygma in which we find the ultimate meaning of our interpersonal relationship." And Jesus said, "What?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]