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pxc ◴[25 Jun 25 01:20 UTC] No.44372814[source]▶
I used to recommend micro[1] to people like those in the target audience of this editor. I wonder if that should change or not.

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1: https://micro-editor.github.io/

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seabrookmx ◴[25 Jun 25 02:49 UTC] No.44373245[source]▶
IMO it should not.

`edit` doesn't even support syntax highlighting (atleast, out of the box when I tried it).

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Litruv ◴[25 Jun 25 03:07 UTC] No.44373324[source]▶
I think you missed the point of edit.
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1. bapak ◴[25 Jun 25 05:18 UTC] No.44373833[source]▶
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.
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2. shakna ◴[25 Jun 25 06:19 UTC] No.44374131[source]▶
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.

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3. antonvs ◴[25 Jun 25 07:11 UTC] No.44374420[source]▶
Is that why the series ground to a halt
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4. kristopolous ◴[25 Jun 25 07:40 UTC] No.44374610[source]▶
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.
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5. red_admiral ◴[25 Jun 25 08:42 UTC] No.44374988[source]▶
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/

I can't find the link but I think at some point she compiled her own nano with some "helpful" feature patched out again.

6. 4k93n2 ◴[25 Jun 25 09:07 UTC] No.44375135[source]▶
George R.R. Martin still uses Wordstar as well!
7. legends2k ◴[25 Jun 25 15:51 UTC] No.44378678[source]▶
Sure, there are always exceptions but they're only that, exceptions.
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9. shakna ◴[26 Jun 25 09:54 UTC] No.44385792{3}[source]▶
> “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.

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10. antonvs ◴[29 Jun 25 09:07 UTC] No.44411468{4}[source]▶
> 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.