[CLUE-Tech] Reliable writing editors?

[Garey Hoffman]

Jeff,

Have your tried AbiWord from AbiSource? It is a GPL'd GUI word processor 
available for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and most other *nix OSes that 
support GTK.  I have had a reasonably good experience with it but have 
only used the Linux version.

The AbiSource site is here: http://www.abisource.com

HTH,

---Garey

Jeffery Cann wrote:

>Greetings.
>
>I generally use VIM for most of my work.  However, when I need to write prose 
>(often in in text format), I find VIM hard to work with.  I love it for 
>coding, but not for writing.
>
>I have tried these programs on Linux:  Kate, Kwrite, Nedit, Mozilla, and Star 
>Office.  All have failed me in one way or another, in particular I loose 
>valuable thoughts when the program crashes or have such a frustrating time 
>with formatting bugs and font displays that it becomes unproductive.  
>
>If I wanted to lose data, I'd switch back to Windoze.  :)  BTW - I write a lot 
>with MS Word @ work and it's the same problems.
>
>So, I am pleading to my fellow authors / CLUEbies:  Get me a real (GUI) 
>editor!  Which editors do you use for writing?  Why?  What problems do you 
>have with them?  How is their presentation within the GUI?  How is stability?  
>Recovery?
>
>Maybe I should try LyX and stop worrying about formatting.
>
>Jeff
>
>  
>

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