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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 Snow on Wednesday May 09 2018, @01:19AM (6 children)
You can hate on MS all you want, but the fact is, the majority of us here are employed to support MS products either directly or indirectly.
Despite having both notepad++ and notepad on my Windows machine at work, I use notepad probably 10 times a day and rarely open notepad++. Notepad is much faster at opening large files, and for the most part works well enough for reading/basic manipulation of text files.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 09 2018, @05:57AM (3 children)
Extraordinary (stupid) claims require extraordinary evidence. Do you have any, Snow? Hairyfeet of the Challenge has not posted in more than a year. Other Microsoft shills, I hear, are being held in dungeons where the wifi signal is sporadic, and they have nothing but Exploder, Notebad, and Edge, mostly to see if, as in the Microsoft Movie, "Saw", they can find a way to kill themselves and thus release them selves from the suffering of being a Microsoft shill. Telemetrics on the demise will of course be uploaded to the Mother-cluster in Redmond, where the Shadows lie.
But, seriously Snow, this is not like your inane "dating" stories. Do you have any evidence that the majority of Soylentils are employed supporting the Great Satan? Or is this just a perverse assumption on your part, and a smear and a slight to the honor of each and every noble Soylentil? I may have to challenge you to a dual.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday May 09 2018, @09:40AM
Anyone with access to S/N Apache's server logs may obtain an estimate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday May 09 2018, @03:30PM (1 child)
I find it intriguing that something I have said has triggered you in such a way. My dating style has hit a personal nerve with you. Why is that, and why do you take it so personally? It's as if you feel I am personally attacking you. It's really weird.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 09 2018, @04:29PM
That is often times an indication that AC wants you, but doesn't feel that he/she has a chance. Smile, man, you have an anonymousey admirer! Have you been finding any presents in your car, your office, or your home, signed by "Secret Admirer"? Chicks go for that kind of thing. No presents? Then AC is probably a dude.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 09 2018, @08:21AM (1 child)
> Despite having both notepad++ and notepad on my Windows machine at work, I use notepad probably 10 times a day and rarely open notepad++. Notepad is much faster at opening large files, and for the most part works well enough for reading/basic manipulation of text files.
May I suggest trying Notepad2 [flos-freeware.ch]?
I regularly use both Notepad2 and Notepad++. N2 is the replacement for Windows' Notepad, lean and fast, in fact much faster than Notepad. I tested it just now -- for small files, they're both pretty much instant, but for larger files, depending on the file layout, N2 can be 100x faster. I had no problems opening 500MB binaries in N2 (to look for some strings), takes only a few seconds. It also offers stuff like regex search, colored syntax, rudimentary block editing, supports different line endings, etc.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday May 09 2018, @03:20PM
Very interesting! I'll check it out, thanks!