I wrote a book and two movies in Emacs. Yes, way more productive. One movie was a collaboration too... he also wrote in a plain text editor, but I think it was

I wrote a book and two movies in Emacs. Yes, way more productive. One movie was a collaboration too... he also wrote in a plain text editor, but I think it was TextMate on the Mac. One thing I also like about writing in plain text (later using Fountain, a Markdown variant) is that I can ignore formatting rules completely. Also, we were saving everything to Dropbox, and I had a server checking out the Dropbox folder and monitoring it. After a while of no changes it would "compile" a new version of the project by concatenating the files and generating a PDF using pandoc and other tools. I expanded upon it a bit more here: https://usesthis.com/interviews/matt.lee/ https://usesthis.com/interviews/matt.lee/