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You know it's fairly trivial to do this in html with a few lines of code... HTML Editable, save to local storage; pretty handy stuff. Has anyone built a subst

by keyle 7y ago

You know it's fairly trivial to do this in html with a few lines of code... HTML Editable, save to local storage; pretty handy stuff. Has anyone built a substantial one like this for their own use?

ent101 7y ago
I wonder what people use this for as it is too simple -- in my opinion at least.
- cocochanel 7y ago
  Use myTextarea to type plain text to remove markup from text to count words and characters
  - bentcorner 7y ago
    For the first two I usually do Win+R, paste, Ctrl+A, copy.
    - acid__ 7y ago
      Try Ctrl+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V for a “plain paste”
      - egypturnash 7y ago
        cmd-shift-v does this on Macs, as well.
      - skrebbel 7y ago
        I've found that this doesn't consistently work across applications (win 10), does anyone else here experience the same and/or have an idea why this is the case?
        JoBrad 7y ago
        I thought it was something an application had to implement, but apparently it is a Windows function that applications have to enable. Definitely wish it was an OS-wide shortcut. https://www.howtogeek.com/186723/ask-htg-how-can-i-paste-text-without-the-formatting/ https://www.howtogeek.com/186723/ask-htg-how-can-i-paste-tex...
    - einr 7y ago
      Pro tip: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/ https://stevemiller.net/puretext/
  - keyle 7y ago
    yeah I do that with sublime text...
  - HenryBemis 7y ago
    1) Notepad 2) Notepad 3) Word offline trustworthy solutions for Windows And most of all I don't have to worry about losing control over the text. The only benefit I see (if it is possible) is collaboration, but on a work-related environment why use a text instead of Google Docs (which I don't use either, but I see the benefit of audit trail)
    - JoBrad 7y ago
      Notepad2 does all of this.
brntn 7y ago
I build a little scratchpad for personal use: https://sesh.github.io/scratchpad/ https://sesh.github.io/scratchpad/ I guess for the most part these sort of things start off solving a personal problem. Getting 15k monthly users is very impressive!
- ent101 7y ago
  Scratchpad looks pretty nice actually!
- baxuz 7y ago
  I love it! :D
taneq 7y ago
> You know it's fairly trivial to do this in html with a few lines of code If it wasn't then it wouldn't be a very good "world's simplest text editor", would it now? :P Edit: It looks small enough that you could probably turn it into a bookmarklet so it wouldn't even need a server. Now that would be awesome.
bachmeier 7y ago
If you want to save to local storage with a fancy WYSIWYG, here's an 18-line html file that calls the Trix CDN: https://gist.github.com/bachmeil/7c19e72b9a5c49a85e8cecb0b7a7f3ca https://gist.github.com/bachmeil/7c19e72b9a5c49a85e8cecb0b7a... Can't say I use it very often, but it was cool being able to do it in a few minutes even though I'm not a web developer.

by keyle 7y ago

You know it's fairly trivial to do this in html with a few lines of code... HTML Editable, save to local storage; pretty handy stuff. Has anyone built a substantial one like this for their own use?

ent101 7y ago

I wonder what people use this for as it is too simple -- in my opinion at least.

cocochanel 7y ago
Use myTextarea to type plain text to remove markup from text to count words and characters
- bentcorner 7y ago
  For the first two I usually do Win+R, paste, Ctrl+A, copy.
  - acid__ 7y ago
    Try Ctrl+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V for a “plain paste”
    - egypturnash 7y ago
      cmd-shift-v does this on Macs, as well.
    - skrebbel 7y ago
      I've found that this doesn't consistently work across applications (win 10), does anyone else here experience the same and/or have an idea why this is the case?
      - JoBrad 7y ago
        I thought it was something an application had to implement, but apparently it is a Windows function that applications have to enable. Definitely wish it was an OS-wide shortcut. https://www.howtogeek.com/186723/ask-htg-how-can-i-paste-text-without-the-formatting/ https://www.howtogeek.com/186723/ask-htg-how-can-i-paste-tex...
  - einr 7y ago
    Pro tip: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/ https://stevemiller.net/puretext/
- keyle 7y ago
  yeah I do that with sublime text...
- HenryBemis 7y ago
  1) Notepad 2) Notepad 3) Word offline trustworthy solutions for Windows And most of all I don't have to worry about losing control over the text. The only benefit I see (if it is possible) is collaboration, but on a work-related environment why use a text instead of Google Docs (which I don't use either, but I see the benefit of audit trail)
  - JoBrad 7y ago
    Notepad2 does all of this.

brntn 7y ago

I build a little scratchpad for personal use: https://sesh.github.io/scratchpad/ https://sesh.github.io/scratchpad/ I guess for the most part these sort of things start off solving a personal problem. Getting 15k monthly users is very impressive!

ent101 7y ago
Scratchpad looks pretty nice actually!
baxuz 7y ago
I love it! :D

taneq 7y ago

> You know it's fairly trivial to do this in html with a few lines of code If it wasn't then it wouldn't be a very good "world's simplest text editor", would it now? :P Edit: It looks small enough that you could probably turn it into a bookmarklet so it wouldn't even need a server. Now that would be awesome.

bachmeier 7y ago

If you want to save to local storage with a fancy WYSIWYG, here's an 18-line html file that calls the Trix CDN: https://gist.github.com/bachmeil/7c19e72b9a5c49a85e8cecb0b7a7f3ca https://gist.github.com/bachmeil/7c19e72b9a5c49a85e8cecb0b7a... Can't say I use it very often, but it was cool being able to do it in a few minutes even though I'm not a web developer.