Stephenson wrote this about text editors: > emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is

Stephenson wrote this about text editors: > emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish [1] I think if you replace "emacs" with "TeX" and "editing software" with "document formatting system", the quote holds just as well. [1] http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html