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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
@rcentros. Yep, emacs with a plugin like fountain-works looks like the way to go. Thanks for the recommendation and info. I must admit, I am writing more and more in ASCII these days. I am using notepad+ a lot in Windows. It's quite nice, has multi-tab, but finding the settings to change options is the stuff of tortured fever dreams. Is emacs multi-tab? And does it do colored fonts? I've never used it.
Edit: watched the video. Thanks for your trouble. Yeah, that's impressive. I see the plugin fountain-works is for script writing. Can it be adapted to a general writing format--i.e., can scriptwriting template be dropped? Crucially, does it support multi-tab? I am forever flipping between windows and editing. But emacs definately looks worth exploring. I wonder if it works under windows... 
Edit: Okay, GNU Emacs works in windows. So it's a question of getting the plugins working. I'll have a play around with this at some point.
Edit: The Centaur plugin provides tabs. Not sure if you can mix and match with other plugins such as fountain-works. But yeah, definately an interesting option when I feel like looking around. Always on the lookout for an interesting editor. I actually managed to copy some of the power features to windows using auto hot key.
The base software does look kinda ugly (like a DOS program), but the Centaur plug-in sexes it up. Call me shallow, but I like shiny stuff where possible. |
Emacs works on Windows but it works better on Linux. Although for just writing you may never notice, it's more integration with compilers and GNU tools. In Emacs everything you open is open in the background as a buffer until you close it down even if it's not in focus. You can easily pick the buffer from the Buffers menu or using C-x b and typing it's name. I find I don't need tabs at all and just switch to buffers by name generally. You can also easily split the Emacs window into multiple panes documents side by side. The terminology is somewhat different because Emacs is 40+ years old. They call what's normally the "window" the frame, and panes in the "window", windows. So for example C-x 3 will open a new window on the right where you can open another file or whatever.
There is Linux alternatives to Auto hot key. For example Kmonad is a pretty new one that lets you create keymaps, different key layers, use tap and hold etc.
Emacs also has insane support for Macros and it's pretty easy to whip up stuff like a mail merge, you can also rebind every key in it if you're insane including just letter keys.