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by gcb0 4077 days ago
convinced my SO to use plain text editor for academic writings with these points:

no crashes

can edit anywhere. even on a dumb phone.

revision control (i provided two scripts to the right click context menu to pull/push)

and the killer one: output to several standards. iso, abnt, eu-whatever... even automatic html formatting for the blog if a smaller article is not accepted anywhere.

though that happened before markdown et al became popular. so latex it is.

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> can edit anywhere. even on a dumb phone.

This makes me wonder how old you are ;-)