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shaknayesterday at 6:19 AM3 repliesview on HN

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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red_admiralyesterday at 8:42 AM

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.

antonvsyesterday at 7:11 AM

Is that why the series ground to a halt

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