Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?

[Tim Bradshaw]

On 2011-02-27 17:28:50 +0000, Julian Bradfield said:
> > Articles are not typically published with "bugs" and then later
> > republished without them. Typical articles are published once and then
> > that's it.
>
> You're not an academic, are you?

This is nothing to do with being an academic.  What happens when, for 
instance, a novel is being published? The author sends it to the 
publisher, who sends back a copy with various changes, which the author 
then either accepts, accepts in some modified form, or rejects.  This 
process is then iterated several times.  I've not written a novel, but 
I know people who have reasonably recently, and they did it using the 
revision-tracking stuff in Word.  Unquestionably a proper 
revision-control system would have been better (the critical thing is a 
visual diff tool).