I haven’t explored the older editors yet (vim, emacs, etc), though emac’s ability to send & receive email raises the issue of an “online word worker” editor that offers modules/widgets/plugins for posting to blogs, tweets, chat, email, etc.

These days, that would account for 70% of my writing.

I could see the use for something between a word processor and a text editor, although at this point I’d also love to see ODT export for txt2tags.

I read your post too–turns out kate has the same concept, only generalized in its “Sessions” support. I don’t know if Bluefish makes you enter a bunch of information about web servers and such (I know Quanta would need some of that to create a project). The neat thing about kate is that there’s integration with the desktop, e.g., a “Kate Sessions” applet that you can park on your dashboard/menu bar in KDE4. So once you log in you’re literall one click away from any of your project.

My choices are Bluefish and Gedit (Ubunut Linux), and while neither is perfect, they’re a better fit for online work than word processors like Open Office and Word.

With the growing prevalence of online copywriting, I think a new class of word processor is needed — something that quickly and easily generates html-tagged copy, incorporates all the modern niceties, yet also posts blog articles, tweets, etc, (perhaps in console windows).

I can think of a few more goodies, and hope the next generation of word processor shows up soon (and that it shows on Linux first).