"John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> Hmmm, just wrote a 1,600 article in emacs via ssh.
John> I'm not using all the navigation aids very well yet but i
John> can see where I'm going from here.
Heh, hehI can just see you discovering emacsclient, and then
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Hmmm,
just wrote a 1,600 article in emacs via ssh.
I'm not using all the navigation aids very well yet but i can see where
I'm going from here.
I really liked the ispell interface.
Thanks very much for all the suggestions.
John
John Griffiths wro
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Thanks to everyone who contributed.
Emacs seems to have a very similar control structure to the ancient
perfect writer on my fathers old kaypro, so i'll give it a shot as a
happy return to my childhood.
(BTW the tutorial sold it to me along with Nea
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:49:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:19:52 -0700
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote:
> > And best of all nano is free software while pico/pine fails the DFSG
> > test.
>
> Wasn't that how nano came about? A free replacement for a non-free b
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:18:48AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > 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 ...
>
> Note that I use emacs as wel
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:19:52 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote:
> And best of all nano is free software while pico/pine fails the DFSG
> test.
Wasn't that how nano came about? A free replacement for a non-free but popular editor?
Kevin
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Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:54:21PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> > John> No, not a troll, I want to know if any of the editors are
> > John> aimed at writers rather than coders,
> > The quoting above, [...] were all done by emacs.
>
> Yes, I can tell. :( I even have
Colin Watson wrote:
> > Pico?
>
> I don't know of any good reason to use pico instead of the suggested
> nano, unless you're using pine and are only using pico as the built-in
> editor. As far as I know nano entirely supersedes pico in all other
> respects.
And best of all nano is free software w
John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
Neal Stephenson uses Emacs:
http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/nealstephensonOS.html
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"Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Colin> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:54:21PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad
Colin> wrote:
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>> The quoting above, [...] were all done by emacs.
Colin> Yes, I can tell. :( I even have a special vim macro to get
Colin> rid of tha
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:49:45PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 19:23, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> > Honestly, I don't know that there is a good console "wordpad.exe" like editor.
> > nano is probably the closest to what you are looking for, with emacs being a
> > (much more compl
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:54:21PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> "John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> John> Travis Crump wrote:
> >> Is this a troll? I prefer vim, a good number of people prefer
> >> emacs. Both will suit your needs.
> >>
> >>
>
>
On 02 Apr 2003, Joey Hess wrote:
> John Griffiths wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I've had no problems writing documents in that range with vim. Folding
> becomes fairly u
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 19:23, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Honestly, I don't know that there is a good console "wordpad.exe" like editor.
> nano is probably the closest to what you are looking for, with emacs being a
> (much more complex but featureful) second.
Pico?
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Michael Waters wrote:
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> If you haven't already tried it, you might like fte/sfte.
>
> Michael
>
>
cool, it looks feature rich, what do you like about it?
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On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:02 +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> I tried many editors, I found them all crap.
>
> What I wanted was a port of Edit which came with MSDos6. Alas there is non.
>
> I did try using RHIDE, a programming IDE, for a while, ok as a text editor.
>
> These days I just use Tou
John Griffiths wrote:
> 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.
I've had no problems writing documents in that range with vim. Folding
becomes fairly useful after a while, if it's all in one file.
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've never looked at Emacs (actually I have, but the guide I was looking
> at was rather poor). Is it easy to re-program control keys?
Yes (albeit in Lisp); my .emacs file has, for example
(global-set-key "\C-xf" 'fixup-whitespace)
to change what ha
> 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 e
"John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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> aim
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Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> 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.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for that, I should clarify that the languag
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Eric G. Miller wrote:
> IMHO, it is better to write in plain text, focusing on *content* first,
> and worry about *presentation* much, much later. I've seen people waste
> enormous amounts of time formatting draft word processor documents over
> and o
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:32, John Griffiths wrote:
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> Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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 oth
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:23 pm, Tom Massey wrote:
> * John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-03 13:09]:
> > 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.
>
> I've written a couple of 50,0
nchez wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to write in
is english (ok, australian english - close) and
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Thanks very much.
Tom Massey wrote:
> * John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-03 13:09]:
>
>>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.
>
>
> I'v
* John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-03 13:09]:
> 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.
I've written a couple of 50,000 word novels, a 10,000 word Honours
thesis, and numerous short sto
John Griffiths said on Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:32:37AM +1000:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to
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Travis Crump wrote:
>
> Is this a troll? I prefer vim, a good number of people prefer emacs.
> Both will suit your needs.
>
>
No, not a troll, I want to know if any of the editors are aimed at
writers rather than coders,
maybe they aren't, maybe the
Matt
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> Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:51 AM
> To: Roberto Sanchez; debian users
> Subject: Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
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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
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Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to
John Griffiths wrote:
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G'day all.
Due to a somewhat complicated set of circumstances I'm looking for a
decent non graphical shell based text editor to write prose with.
- - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write from a
number of rem
"John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> G'day all. Due to a somewhat complicated set of
John> circumstances I'm looking for a decent non graphical shell
John> based text editor to write prose with.
John> basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and
- - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write from a
number of remote locations.
I know Debian is blessed with a plethora of programs that can do this,
what I'm after is a recommendation for something that feels good to
write with.
in a perfect world I'd like decent cut and paste
-- John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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> Due to a somewhat complicated set of circumstances I'm looking for a
> decent non graphical shell based text editor to write prose with.
>
> - - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write f
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