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I think not. Edit is to edit files in the terminal. What kind of files do you expect people to edit in the terminal? Most certainly files that would benefit fro

by bapak 1y ago

I think not. Edit is to edit files in the terminal. What kind of files do you expect people to edit in the terminal? Most certainly files that would benefit from colors, not prose.

shakna 1y ago
A lot of authors, myself included, want a "distraction free" editor. Its a whole over-populated market segment. Prose thrives in the terminal. Ice and Fire was written in WordStar, as just one popular example.
- antonvs 1y ago
  Is that why the series ground to a halt
  - shakna 1y ago
    > “I’m 12 years late on this damn novel, and I’m struggling with it,” he said. “I have like 1,100 pages written, but I still have hundreds more pages to go. It’s a big mother of a book for whatever reason. Maybe I should’ve started writing smaller books when I began this, but it’s tough.” He's averaging a hundred pages a year. Maybe not the fastest, but certainly not the slowest writer. With the size of his books... Cut the guy some slack.
    - antonvs 1y ago
      > 12 years late Seems like people have cut him a lot of slack already. Of course he doesn’t really owe anything to anybody, but at some point he and everyone else has to face the reality - which is that if that book is ever published, it’ll be posthumously, finished by a ghostwriter.
- red_admiral 1y ago
  Rachel Kroll once posted that she writes her posts in nano, with the distraction of syntax highlighting turned off: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/09/24/editor/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/09/24/editor/ I can't find the link but I think at some point she compiled her own nano with some "helpful" feature patched out again.
- deleted 1y ago
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kristopolous 1y ago
I met someone recently that still uses WordStar. Yes I'm serious. He runs it in QEMU on FreeDOS. He's a writer for a living.
- 4k93n2 1y ago
  George R.R. Martin still uses Wordstar as well!
- legends2k 1y ago
  Sure, there are always exceptions but they're only that, exceptions.

by bapak 1y ago

I think not. Edit is to edit files in the terminal. What kind of files do you expect people to edit in the terminal? Most certainly files that would benefit from colors, not prose.

shakna 1y ago

A lot of authors, myself included, want a "distraction free" editor. Its a whole over-populated market segment. Prose thrives in the terminal. Ice and Fire was written in WordStar, as just one popular example.

antonvs 1y ago
Is that why the series ground to a halt
- shakna 1y ago
  > “I’m 12 years late on this damn novel, and I’m struggling with it,” he said. “I have like 1,100 pages written, but I still have hundreds more pages to go. It’s a big mother of a book for whatever reason. Maybe I should’ve started writing smaller books when I began this, but it’s tough.” He's averaging a hundred pages a year. Maybe not the fastest, but certainly not the slowest writer. With the size of his books... Cut the guy some slack.
  - antonvs 1y ago
    > 12 years late Seems like people have cut him a lot of slack already. Of course he doesn’t really owe anything to anybody, but at some point he and everyone else has to face the reality - which is that if that book is ever published, it’ll be posthumously, finished by a ghostwriter.
red_admiral 1y ago
Rachel Kroll once posted that she writes her posts in nano, with the distraction of syntax highlighting turned off: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/09/24/editor/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/09/24/editor/ I can't find the link but I think at some point she compiled her own nano with some "helpful" feature patched out again.
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kristopolous 1y ago

I met someone recently that still uses WordStar. Yes I'm serious. He runs it in QEMU on FreeDOS. He's a writer for a living.

4k93n2 1y ago
George R.R. Martin still uses Wordstar as well!
legends2k 1y ago
Sure, there are always exceptions but they're only that, exceptions.