No.11717
What's a good lightweight or minimalist writing program for Windows? Shit like MS Word and LibreOffice Writer are so bloated.
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No.11718
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No.11733
>>11717
latex comes to mind
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No.11743
Q10 typewriter
I've been using it for a while now and it's great.
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No.11744
FocusWriter is pretty good, too.
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No.11758
>>11717
My favourites are Q10 and FocusWriter.
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No.11800
I used Notepad++ for NaNoWriMo this year. No complaints.
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No.11812
PFS:Write
If you can track down a copy.
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No.11835
If you're autistic enough you could try Emacs. Bloated as hell, but it doesn't expose functionality that you're not using or explicitly looking for. The performance is good.
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No.11837
>>11835
Seconding Emacs. Note that is Emacs, not XEmacs. I have nothing against XEmacs, excepting it being too easy to dive into the mouse driven menu system and bury yourself in the detail exposed.
With standard Emacs figuring out the keybindings to get anything accomplished will make for a steep learning curve. One may find it a surreal experience, unless gifted a previous acquaintance with command driven applications such as Wordstar (FOREVAH!), VI (old school meme wars notice: DEATH TO VI!), or Edlin (the stuff of nightmares). Learn how to open a file, do a spell check, save a file, and exit the program. After all that you're good to go.
At some point you'll want to exchange files with others. You will have to learn how to do a Unix to DOS format/line ending file conversion. No more than that as all the rest is plain text, just as it should be, and exchangeable with anyone as is. Typesetting is not your concern.
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No.13081
If you can wrap your head around the keybindings, vim isn't a bad choice. Make sure you use vim rather than vi, though, because vim has the 'v'isual function, which will allow you to manipulate blocks of text. That's the central function that I use vim for: the ability to grab sections, cut them, and paste them without moving my hands from the keyboard. You can also split the console window, much like with emacs, which is useful if you want to compare drafts.
Also vim (for Windows, at least) comes with a tutorial, whereas with emacs you have to download the documentation separately, a trademark "fuck you" to the consumer courtesy of the GNU project.
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No.13098
>>13081
Nope, Emacs has a built-in tutorial as well (very similar to vimtutor), plus a ton of documentation that's extremely well-integrated with the text editor and couldn't be provided separately even if you wanted to.
The full manual isn't included because it's a pretty long book. But the manual isn't the only documentation. Emacs is self-documenting.
That said, Vim is alright too. Although Neovim might better.
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No.13101
Wordpad.
It's got all you need.
More than you need actually.
You only need Notepad.
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No.13102
>>13098
It does? Shit, I had to basically teach myself how to use it by googling all of my questions. Out of curiosity, how do you access said tutorial? Because I was hanging out with a bunch of emacs users for a long time and not one of them even hinted at its existence.
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No.13106
>>13102
The "Emacs Tutorial" button near the top of the startup screen, or control+h t.
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No.13349
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No.13350
>>13101
Don't you mean Notepad++?
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No.13377
>>11733
He wanted a program not a type formatting.
>>11717
I use vim, but as others have mentioned emacs.
If you really want a simple editor I would use ed.
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No.13687
>>11743
Oh, man. Thanks for this. It's quite a novelty but damn me if it doesn't get the creative juices flowing again.
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No.13690
I use FocusWriter. It's a bit more featured than Q10 (which I also like). I like the customisable backgrounds, and it has spellcheck and other text formatting shit like italics and whatnot because it can save to .odt and all this shit if you want to turn it on, but you ccn set it up to be the most basic command-line looking text editor with no "help" at all.
And the word/page count and daily goal features are great.
>>13350
I remember opening Notepad++ one day and it opened a new document all by itself and started slowly typing out this political message. I don't need fucking politics injected in to a goddamn text editor.
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No.13693
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No.13792
>>13693
learn to use vim you brainless cunt
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No.13819
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No.13820
I have focuswriter on linux and I remember there was a very similar one in windows 10 about 2 years ago.
If you do a general search through the windows appstore you should be able to find it.
I remember it was this blank space with a blue background (you had a few to choose from I think) and it had the option for relaxin music too but I cannot remember the name.
Anyway apparently focus writer can be used on windows:
https://focuswriter.en.softonic.com/
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