Having trouble finding a word in multiple files

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Thu Jun 18 19:43:30 UTC 2020


On 18/06/2020 17:18, Liam Proven wrote:
> I use Oxygen and occasionally Geany for minor stuff... But it still
> means working directly with the source.

25 years after XML, and 35 years after SGML, and 40+ years after TeX, 
and we still have no typographically-synchronous authoring or editing 
tool worth using; and especially not for more recent systems like 
Markdown. There are a few reasonably close fits, but none that you can 
give to an author and say "write me your stuff" without having to 
explain how it all works. This is why people use Word, and in 98% of 
cases it's fine because what is written isn't worth keeping long-term.

> I wouldn't worry -- TBH I don't _want_ anything newer than 2003! ;-)

That's fine.

"Water? Never touch the stuff!"

P




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