I am all for pragmatism, and if I was to try to publish a novel, I would probably use .docx. But if you discover a good text editor, be it Emacs or Vi or somet

I am all for pragmatism, and if I was to try to publish a novel, I would probably use .docx. But if you discover a good text editor, be it Emacs or Vi or something else, it changes the way you edit text. There are things that a good text editor does exceedingly well that are painfully hard - if even possible at all! - in a program like Word. Some of these are specific to programming, but some are specific to editing text -- Which kind of is what writers do, isn't it? ;-) -- and once you crossed that barrier, going back to Word - useful as it may be - is like going back to chiseling your writing into slabs of rock.