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Emacs with howm: (emacs#28)

directed to this by way of aymeric of http://goto10.org:

howm: Write fragmentarily and read collectively:

http://howm.sourceforge.jp/

a bit more dired: (emacs#27)

A (capital A) - search/grep within files in dired's list of directories

s - toggle ordering - alphabetical/by date

see also as reference:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/references/gnu/emacs/emacs_32.html