Would be a good application of a Grub menu option: a) Boot with all bells & whistles. Or b) Boot straight into editor & type away. Hell you could even use a c

Would be a good application of a Grub menu option: a) Boot with all bells & whistles. Or b) Boot straight into editor & type away. Hell you could even use a customized kernel for that, to strip out all the boot-time consuming features that editor doesn't need.