He got off the exit right before the highway ran into Clippy-ville. Good for him. Also of a similar ilk is Neal Stephenson, who writes his stuff in Emacs (in

He got off the exit right before the highway ran into Clippy-ville. Good for him. Also of a similar ilk is Neal Stephenson, who writes his stuff in Emacs (in LaTeX, I believe). There is something to be said for cranking out raw text without worrying about fighting the beast over spelling, grammar, indentation, auto-this and auto-that. If you're good, those things just get in the way.