Having trouble finding a word in multiple files

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 21:45, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
> 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.

Absolutely, and I must admit, this astounds me.

I mean, setting up something like a fileserver is markedly harder now
than it was in the era of AppleShare or Netware 2 or 3... but the fact
that even blasted _word processors_ are harder drives me to despair.

I think we've discussed previously that WordPerfect with "reveal
codes" would be preferable.

> 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.

Quite so.

> > I wouldn't worry -- TBH I don't _want_ anything newer than 2003! ;-)
>
> That's fine.
>
> "Water? Never touch the stuff!"

We know what W C Fields said fish do in it, after all.


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