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I would be very worried that there's some random action stealing the focus of the writing app and me just typing letters into the void.
by dewey 3y ago
I would be very worried that there's some random action stealing the focus of the writing app and me just typing letters into the void.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoThe hotkey to return to my window manager is pretty hard to hit by accident. As for the writing app, it's just a python script looping over lines read from stdin and writing them to disk. Not many opportunities to do anything else.
- akho 3y agoWhy not just cat?
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoBecause I am a dummy. This is even better: cat - > prose.txt Thanks for the idea.
- rpastuszak 3y agoHeh, for that exact reason I'm using it with my screen dimmed as much as possible and even considered adding a night[*] (black to red) mode for OLED screens (I write at night, I'm a vampire). One of the use-cases I found when I was researching Ensō: there was a blogger who'd split writing into two steps: 1. writing with their screen dimmed as much as possible 2. editing the next day Also, perhaps a pure-black screen with a simple indicator of the number of characters/words written would work here? You'd still know that the editor is recording your changes. Seems like a nice idea for a little app/toy. [*]examples, inspiration: https://untested.sonnet.io/Obsidian+for+Vampires https://untested.sonnet.io/Obsidian+for+Vampires (apologies for messy notes, this project is separate from my main site)