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by yoanizer 4331 days ago
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).
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andrey-p 4331 days 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

[2]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Move_cursor_by_display_lines_when_...

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yoanizer 4331 days 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)

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emiunet 4331 days 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.
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O_W_Grant 4331 days ago
well, not every one knows vim ) besides, you cannot work on vim via internet )
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uniclaude 4331 days 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.

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O_W_Grant 4331 days 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.
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JadeNB 4331 days ago
There seem to be plenty of (vim-ish)-in-the-browser solutions:

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.

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gherkin 4331 days ago
What makes writing text locally any better?
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O_W_Grant 4331 days 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.
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yoanizer 4331 days 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).

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