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I am a big fan of Robert J. Sawyer. He is like Michael Crichton, except tech things go good instead of bad. On the topic of word processors: The famed New Yor
by agbell 6y ago
I am a big fan of Robert J. Sawyer. He is like Michael Crichton, except tech things go good instead of bad.
On the topic of word processors: The famed New Yorker writer John McPhee only writes with Kedit, which I had never even heard of until he spoke of it a lot in his book on writing. I seem to recall a story of him needing to pin down the orginal creator at some point, well after the creator had abandoned the project, for some tech support.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/14/structure https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/14/structure
https://www.kedit.com/ https://www.kedit.com/
- sedatk 6y agoI think KEDIT was simply the DOS port of XEDIT, IBM's standard text editor on mainframes.
- agbell 6y agoI think you are right. I think he used the line filter features to drill down to specific parts of a book he was working on. It sounds very cool, but I wouldn't want to be bound to a mainly abandoned text editor if I were one of the most celebrated non-fiction writers. Although maybe it is his secret sauce?