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An assortment of articles on the use of editors and word processors
Editors:
[comp.editors]
USENET newsgroup (discussion forum) for text editors, lots of focus on
VIM
Text Editor Compendium
Roger Nelson
(from comp.editors)
[Interface Zen]
Tom Christiansen's
classic article on becoming one with your editor. Also a powerful argument for
VI
over
Emacs
(45k, no comments)
[Slashdot article comments]
The article spawned many comments and replies (156k)
[Code editors renew approach to IDEs]
Maggie Biggs
2003 article in
InfoWorld
[There is a perfect editor]
Compiled by
Compiled by Bruce Ediger
on Stratigery.com
[Tale of 5 editors]
by
Eric S. Raymond
[Seven habits of effective text editing]
by
BramMoolenaar
(
[also in plain text]
)
[How Do People Really Use Text Editors?]
article by
John Whiteside, Norman Archer, Dennis Wixon, and Michael Good
, published 1982
[A Comparative Study of Vi and Emacs from the Perspective of Novice and Regular Users]
Dr William J. Knottenbelt
[PICO vs VI - a short comparison]
Sven Guckes
[From Pico to Nano or The Slightly Bigger Editor]
Sven Guckes
[Reading and Writing with Computers: A Framework for Explaining Differences in Performance]
Wilfred J. Hansen, Christina Haas
CMU
Vi AND Emacs
John Dierdorf
, I/O Corp.
[Introduction to the Text Editing for Programmers]
Norm Matloff
UC Davis
[An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi]
Mark Horton
,
Bill Joy
Word Processors:
[Word Processors: One Writer's Retreat]
Timothy Lord
on Slashdot
[Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient]
Allin Cottrell's
essay in favor of text editors with
TeX
for formatting
[User Customization of a Word Processor]
by
Stanley R. Page, Todd J. Johnsgard, Uhl Albert and C. Dennis Allen
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