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                                 Just because.
                                        
> I guess the part I don't understand is the target audience. Who is so
> serious about writing that they need a full-screen editor, but so unserious
> that they don't have a favorite editor already? I've published two full-
> length books and posted a hell of a lot more than that, and you can pry my
> text editor from my cold dead hands. I'm not even going to mention which
> one it is; it doesn't matter. Switching to a new one would be a frustrating
> and painful experience that would get in the way of my writing for weeks,
> maybe months.
> 

Via decafbad.com [1], “Mark Pilgrim: wrongroom [2]”

It could also be “because I can.”

Or because the software being used sucks [3] and it's easier to start over
than try to work on an existing project.

Any number of reasons.

But I can certainly relate to the trauma of switching editors. Heck, it was
traumatic switching email clients [4] and I'm still finding flaws in mutt [5]
(just last night, I patched it to change the default location for saving
attachments, since I hate cluttering up my home directory).

[1] http://decafbad.com/blog/2007/01/23/is-this-the-
[2] http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/01/21/wrongroom
[3] http://we.hates-software.com/
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/06/07.2
[5] http://www.mutt.org/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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