the real distraction is … you > On 29.01.2024, at 19:55, Jim Hall via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > 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
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