Thomas Cornelius Desi wrote: > > Apropos authoring on DOS Software: As I was looking for > someting nifty that would enhance my writing workflow on > the computer, I decided for VDE by Eric Meyer writer. > ( have a look here: https://archive.org/details/vde-197 ) > It actually does sort-of-UTF8 encoding which in my case > (German Umlaute äöü ß) is important. And yes: why has > it become so cumbersome to switch of internet-connections?!
It's a different sort of thing, but a colleague shared his editor's advice to write in a way that makes it difficult to go back and edit what you've done, while you're writing it. The idea is that you don't spend time "editing as you go" - constantly spinning your wheels, editing what you just wrote when you should be focusing on writing new stuff - and instead do all your editing and revisions after you've finished a full draft of something (article, chapter, etc). I tried his advice, and I have been (unironically) writing articles using Edlin or ed(1) at home. (That's why I had the "comma" question last week.) I write my content in plain text using Markdown, which makes it easy to do simple formatting like section headings, bold, and italics. When I'm done with my draft, I run the Markdown command to convert to HTML, open it in a browser and copy/paste into a word processor - where I'll finish editing before I submit. It works well for what I do. And it's the ultimate in "distraction free" writing. :-) > and let’s mention »Captain Blackbeard« editor. Also great! > That's an editor I hadn't heard of (there were a million text editors in the DOS era) so I looked it up: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Captain_Blackbeard Very interesting programmer's editor. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
