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“I compose most of my fiction and long-form nonfic, as well as blog posts in Gedit, a text editor, usually with emacs keybindings.”
Cory Doctorow Interview, Activist, writer, journalist · via Uses This 
“For editing text, I usually use the very basic gedit program.”
Parker Higgins Interview, Artist, activist (Freedom of the Press Foundation) · via Uses This