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To be honest I never really understood this need for minimalistic text editors. I can understand if all you know is MS Word, but when I need distraction free ed

To be honest I never really understood this need for minimalistic text editors. I can understand if all you know is MS Word, but when I need distraction free editing, I just launch Vim, open a file in my dropbox, and switch to full screen, done. No need for 10,000 projects like this (FocusWriter, WriteMonkey, WriteRoom, and whatever else). (and as everyone else already mentioned, don't start by asking people their email).

emiunet 12y ago
I second this. Plus, I ssh into my own server, tmux att and launch vim there. It is available wherever with Internet connection for me.
- O_W_Grant 12y ago
  well, not every one knows vim ) besides, you cannot work on vim via internet )
  - uniclaude 12y ago
    > you cannot work on vim via internet Can you please expand on this? I'd say you're wrong, but I'm not quite sure I really understand what you mean.
    - O_W_Grant 12y ago
      What I mean is that vim is a program that runs on your pc. Of course you can ssh to it from anywhere if you wish, but it seems to be over complicated just to write a text from any point of the world.
      - gherkin 12y ago
        What makes writing text locally any better?
        O_W_Grant 12y ago
        i do not know, for me having a tool available from almost any device via internet is better than having one only at my pc.
      - JadeNB 12y ago
        There seem to be plenty of (vim-ish)-in-the-browser solutions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3109847/is-there-any-online-text-editor-with-vim-like-capabilities-modal-editor http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3109847/is-there-any-onli... That's from 4 years ago, and the latest answer from over a year ago; I wouldn't be surprised if the situation were better now.
  - yoanizer 12y ago
    Do you often find yourself writing on somebody else's machine? I don't know about you but I find that I do 99.99% of my work on one of my machines (where I have control over what's installed and what is not). So the issue for me is not if I can access the editor from remote, but if I can access/sync the data. (which dropbox solves for me).
andrey-p 12y ago
I found my favourite writing environment (IWE?) to be Vim + Goyo [1] + line-wrapping with j/k keys mapped to gj/gk [2] [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim [2]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Move_cursor_by_display_lines_when_wrapping http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Move_cursor_by_display_lines_when_...
- yoanizer 12y ago
  +1 for Goyo. As a side note, I don't like line-wrapping too much, I prefer auto formatting (:set tw=80 and then type away, vim will handle the line breaks)

emiunet 12y ago

I second this. Plus, I ssh into my own server, tmux att and launch vim there. It is available wherever with Internet connection for me.

O_W_Grant 12y ago
well, not every one knows vim ) besides, you cannot work on vim via internet )
- uniclaude 12y ago
  > you cannot work on vim via internet Can you please expand on this? I'd say you're wrong, but I'm not quite sure I really understand what you mean.
  - O_W_Grant 12y ago
    What I mean is that vim is a program that runs on your pc. Of course you can ssh to it from anywhere if you wish, but it seems to be over complicated just to write a text from any point of the world.
    - gherkin 12y ago
      What makes writing text locally any better?
      - O_W_Grant 12y ago
        i do not know, for me having a tool available from almost any device via internet is better than having one only at my pc.
    - JadeNB 12y ago
      There seem to be plenty of (vim-ish)-in-the-browser solutions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3109847/is-there-any-online-text-editor-with-vim-like-capabilities-modal-editor http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3109847/is-there-any-onli... That's from 4 years ago, and the latest answer from over a year ago; I wouldn't be surprised if the situation were better now.
- yoanizer 12y ago
  Do you often find yourself writing on somebody else's machine? I don't know about you but I find that I do 99.99% of my work on one of my machines (where I have control over what's installed and what is not). So the issue for me is not if I can access the editor from remote, but if I can access/sync the data. (which dropbox solves for me).

andrey-p 12y ago

I found my favourite writing environment (IWE?) to be Vim + Goyo [1] + line-wrapping with j/k keys mapped to gj/gk [2] [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim [2]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Move_cursor_by_display_lines_when_wrapping http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Move_cursor_by_display_lines_when_...

yoanizer 12y ago
+1 for Goyo. As a side note, I don't like line-wrapping too much, I prefer auto formatting (:set tw=80 and then type away, vim will handle the line breaks)