Are there any famous writer who use a command line text editor to write books, are there any books written that way? Perhaps exegesis?
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Replying to @futurebird
so, upping the ante here a bit: the challenge would be to write something in ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_(text_editor) … and it's very probably that some books have already been written in it (though not fiction). Vi was invented in 1976. Ed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor) … was 1973
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Replying to @graveolens @futurebird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor) … even earlier. A lot of fiction is very likely written in vi, just looking at MIT and CMU cultures at a glance, but if you throw a dart at a map you're more likely to get a msword or wordperfect user. People who live in the terminal (myself included)...
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are distributed in a strange and haphazard way
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