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I wish there was a console version of this. Linux really lacks a good writing app for console. All the text editors don't do on-the-fly word-wrapping (while no

I wish there was a console version of this. Linux really lacks a good writing app for console. All the text editors don't do on-the-fly word-wrapping (while not inserting a real line ending). Makes sense for a text editor that's normally used for config files and programming, but I would really want something more like a word processor. There's wordgrinder but it's not great for this, it has a proprietary format so I have to export to .txt every time. Something like wordstar that would just save in text format woudl be amazing. It's just very strange that something that is 100% natural on the web (text word-wrapping works perfectly in every textbox on the web!!) is so difficult to achieve on the console. I heard maybe vim or emacs can do it but I'm not a fan of those tbh. I'd love something like nano...

gooseyard 5y ago
The venerable joe editor (https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io) is apparently very comfortable for Wordstar users. I used it for a few years in college before I could afford enough RAM to run emacs and although I never actually used Wordstar myself and cant compare it that way, I really liked using joe and can still remember a lot of the keybindings 20+ years later.
- tangus 5y ago
  It lacks word wrapping tho.
  - bellyfullofbac 5y ago
    ^TW .. By default it word wraps files, so editing source files with long lines gets a bit annoying, I know one can save the default options, but I've used this shortcut a lot of times that I know it by heart.
    - GekkePrutser 5y ago
      True but as far as I remember it inserts a 'hard' line ending every time it wraps. Meaning you have to go back in and clean up all those line endings if you want to go back and edit a paragraph, otherwise everything ends up out of whack. What I'd prefer is an editor that wraps visually but only inserts line endings at the end of a paragraph (when enter is actually pressed).
      - bombcar 5y ago
        Nano does this if it’s turned on. I can’t believe other editors don’t have a soft wrap option. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122795/long-line-wrapping-in-nano https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122795/long-line-wr...
zikzak 5y ago
I see you don't care for it but I often run Emacs in terminal mode (use cmd line option "-nw"). I always configure word wrap as well.
maxnoe 5y ago
Vim does it with set linebreak set wrap You can enable this by filtetype using the filetype plugin. E.g. I have those lines in .vim/after/ftplugin/markdown.vim and TeX.vim.

gooseyard 5y ago

The venerable joe editor (https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io) is apparently very comfortable for Wordstar users. I used it for a few years in college before I could afford enough RAM to run emacs and although I never actually used Wordstar myself and cant compare it that way, I really liked using joe and can still remember a lot of the keybindings 20+ years later.

tangus 5y ago
It lacks word wrapping tho.
- bellyfullofbac 5y ago
  ^TW .. By default it word wraps files, so editing source files with long lines gets a bit annoying, I know one can save the default options, but I've used this shortcut a lot of times that I know it by heart.
  - GekkePrutser 5y ago
    True but as far as I remember it inserts a 'hard' line ending every time it wraps. Meaning you have to go back in and clean up all those line endings if you want to go back and edit a paragraph, otherwise everything ends up out of whack. What I'd prefer is an editor that wraps visually but only inserts line endings at the end of a paragraph (when enter is actually pressed).
    - bombcar 5y ago
      Nano does this if it’s turned on. I can’t believe other editors don’t have a soft wrap option. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122795/long-line-wrapping-in-nano https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122795/long-line-wr...

zikzak 5y ago

I see you don't care for it but I often run Emacs in terminal mode (use cmd line option "-nw"). I always configure word wrap as well.

maxnoe 5y ago

Vim does it with set linebreak set wrap You can enable this by filtetype using the filetype plugin. E.g. I have those lines in .vim/after/ftplugin/markdown.vim and TeX.vim.