[Discuss] RMS in the news

Bill Horne bill at horne.net
Fri Sep 20 17:23:03 EDT 2019


On 9/19/2019 9:55 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
> On 9/19/2019 5:03 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> I was an emacs guy. Learned vi in about 1980, but when I worked for cadmus
>> I learned gosling  emacs. Used it for all my development until I switched
>> to atom
> No less an authority than Neal Stephenson wrote "I use emacs, which
> might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor."^1
>
> Bill
>
> 1. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NealStephenson

I have just been told that Neal Stephenson switched from emacs to a
different word processor, and then to writing with a fountain pen.

Since I find fountain pens very hard to use, does anyone know which
software Mr. Stephenson used in between emacs and his pen? TIA.

Bill

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