![]() Still, MMD felt hack-y and was only supported by one guy and I wondered if there was anything else like it out there. I could fit a bazillion of them on my USB drive and carry loads of research with me to my office on campus (where I got a hand-me-down Dell running XP v.e.r.y.s.l.o.w.l.y) and on my much speedier Mac at home and even in Linux. The plain text files took up no space and could be edited anywhere. I could write plain text and, with a couple of handy keystrokes, create beautiful PDF files that my committee would appreciate. Happily I discovered that I could use MMD and TextMate to create LaTeX files without having to look at a bunch of distracting LaTeX markup. My introduction this time was a rather circuitous route: I moved from Mellel (on the Mac), to Scrivener where I discovered the wonders of MultiMarkdown. I’ve been able to do the basics in emacs for years. ![]() I know, it’s disturbing.) I also have some tech chops, being a refugee from the heady late 1990s tech boom where I co-founded a small company that made some money before it collapsed. (Actually, I don’t tell my colleagues about it. I work in a field in which computers are, to most folks, MS Word, MS Entourage, and MS Explorer. I’m pretty excited about that, and overwhelmed, too.Īctually, a little background might help: I’m a PhD student in early modern (read: renaissance) English literature. ![]() I’m an emacs newbie who’s trying to both simplify and empower my computing life, and I’ve chosen emacs as the tool to do that. Reposted with permission because (a) it shows that people who aren’t computer geeks can also love Emacs, and (b) it gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling and encouraged me to keep writing, so I want to keep it around just in case I get in a rut again.
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