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FocusWriter is a cross-platform tool available to be easily installed on multiple GNU/Linux distributions, as well as Windows and Mac OS.
FocusWriter isn't super powerful, nor is it deeply extensible, but it's not entirely special feature-less either, with the FocusWriter website listing its features as:
- TXT, basic RTF, Docx, basic ODT file support
- Timers and alarms
- Daily goals
- Fully customizable themes
- Typewriter sound effects (optional)
- Auto-save (optional)
- Live statistics (optional)
- Spell-checking (optional)
- Multi-document support
- Sessions
- Portable mode (optional)
- Translated into over 20 languages
The program opens the editing interface in fullscreen on start. All you see on start is a blank text document and a wooden background; no menus, buttons or other interface elements that may get in your way. How do you interact with the program then? How do you exit it, load documents, or change some of the default options? All you need to do is move the mouse cursor to the top of the screen and move it back down a bit afterward.
Because, why not? We haven't had an all-out Vim/Emacs war in a while.
Source: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/05/06/a-look-at-focuswriter-distraction-free-text-editor-on-gnu-linux/
(Score: 2) by corey on Tuesday May 08 2018, @11:30PM (20 children)
LaTeX.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday May 08 2018, @11:37PM (6 children)
LyX?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday May 08 2018, @11:54PM (4 children)
Mechanical typewriter, because fuck you Apple for ruining the laptop keyboard.
(Score: 4, Funny) by hemocyanin on Wednesday May 09 2018, @05:40AM (3 children)
Here's one of my clay tablets for you to smash it with.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday May 09 2018, @09:45AM
Where's my '+ Altruistic' mod?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Touché) by bob_super on Wednesday May 09 2018, @04:23PM (1 child)
Heretic ! Don't you know that Apple's excellent designs deserve no less than smashing-by-marble-tablet ?
Carrara marble, at that.
Gold trim optional.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 09 2018, @04:40PM
You'll have to put a lot of gold trim on that Apple device, to make it worthy of being smashed with some marble chips.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday May 09 2018, @01:50PM
I really like LyX, and use it for all my prose. It handles math and scientific symbols well, too. The output is beautiful.
I'm a little surprised it's mentioned so seldom. All the power of TeX, but user-friendly.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Wednesday May 09 2018, @12:30AM (12 children)
I've hopped on the Markdown for everything bandwagon. I do feel a bit limited at times (colours and highlighting for example), but overall it is a convent method of putting formatted thoughts in text quickly.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Arik on Wednesday May 09 2018, @02:41AM (11 children)
So, when you think "I wonder what's for lunch?" that thought has a *color?*
Or did you mean "putting thoughts into formatted text?" That would make a lot more sense.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 09 2018, @06:18AM (1 child)
The question for Arik, as always: can it handle non-proportional font? Arik only has lunch in non-proportional fonts. Black and white. Sad, actually.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday May 09 2018, @11:47AM
I don't think in fonts.
"Black and white."
But if I did, they would be in green phosphorus, not white.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday May 09 2018, @11:24AM (8 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday May 09 2018, @11:45AM (7 children)
And how does that choice 'represent the structure' of the thought of lunch?
Can the choice of a single font really 'represent' a more complicated structure? How?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday May 09 2018, @06:20PM (6 children)
Mu.
> And how does that choice 'represent the structure' of the thought of lunch?
Mu.
> Can the choice of a single font really 'represent' a more complicated structure?
Mu.
> How?
Mu.
You seem to making some assumptions about what I've written which were neither in what I've written nor in my mind when I wrote it. For a start - what's with your perverse obsession with fonts?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday May 09 2018, @06:50PM (5 children)
"You seem to making some assumptions about what I've written which were neither in what I've written nor in my mind when I wrote it."
I was just approaching the structure of what you posted and trying to make sense of it. So if I'm showing flawed assumptions why not correct them?
"For a start - what's with your perverse obsession with fonts?"
Speaking of false assumptions!
What I wonder is what's with all the rest of yas obsession with fonts?
I stick out precisely because I am NOT obsessed with them. Give me one good screen font that does the job and that's all I need, right up to the moment we start thinking about sending something to the printer at least. It's everyone else that seems to be font crazy. Why do people think they need a million different screen fonts? Why do they think they need to be able to pick the 5 least readable, cycle back and forth between them repeatedly in the same sentence, and then force you to read their text in that manner? What deep-seated attraction do the rest of you feel to this situation?
It seems to me quite silly and a total waste of time. Precisely because I am NOT obsessed with fonts. I prefer to dispense with such distractions and focus on the actual text, the underlying structure, which has nothing to do with fonts or colors.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 09 2018, @07:59PM (3 children)
> I was just approaching the structure of what you posted and trying to make sense of it. So if I'm showing flawed assumptions why not correct them?
There were two sibling posts, a post by an AC making a stab at your (frankly, almost unreadable) monospace, and a post by FatPhil who tried to help you with your bewilderment at the phrase "formatted thoughts". FatPhil made no mention of any fonts.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Wednesday May 09 2018, @08:07PM (2 children)
You don't see my font, the font you see is installed on your own pc, if you don't like it you should change it.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @10:51PM (1 child)
Sure, I could change it, but there are legitimate uses for a monospaced font that someone may use, and in that case I would want it to display properly. So I'm not going to change the font in my browser because of a special snowflake like you.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Saturday May 12 2018, @01:40AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by FatPhil on Thursday May 10 2018, @09:07AM
> Speaking of false assumptions!
Bullshit. It's not an assumption, it is a clearly demonstrable fact - you were the one who introduced the concept of fonts completely unnecessarily into our discussion. Why? Don't answer that, I really couldn't give a shit.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves