The miracle of computing is that once we learn something and our software package starts to seem natural we stop thinking that there could be other ways to do the same thing. Unhappily we still live in an era of computing Babel in which there are many different ways of work- ing. We become acutely aware of this when we need to transport files to unfamiliar places.
Different software is good for different things.
For any- thing longer, use Emacs or vi. For papers and reports, you are probably accustomed to using a microcomputer word processor such as Word or WordPerfect. If you publish a newsletter you are probably using a desktop publishing program like PageMaker. If you are comparing all known versions of A Shakespeare play, you are probably using something else. We work in different ways in Unix, DOS, Windows, Mac, etc.