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WordGrinder WriteRoomBased on our record, WordGrinder seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 10 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
There are some people trying to recreate the Wordstar experience, like this one, and they supposedly were great and simple for writing long-form content (it was before my time, so I have no experience with it). Source: 10 months ago
WordGrinder. It's great for distraction-free writing, and can output Markdown or troff. It's a great tool for getting words down, but its otherwise pretty limited (which I think is one of its strengths). When I need to print or generate a PDF, I have a little script. Source: 11 months ago
For word processing there's WordGrinder, which is in the repos for many distros (in Fedora: dnf install wordgrinder). Things like LaTeX and Groff are for typesetting, which I don't view as the same as word processing. WordGrinder is more like the classical DOS word processors (e.g. WordPerfect 5.1). Source: about 1 year ago
I have a word processor I wrote (https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder) which is mostly written in Lua, with hardware-specific stuff in C, and while this works extremely well, I'd very much like something with stronger typing. There's a possibility I'd be able to just drop in Luau and get it, plus some performance benefits. I'd need to reimplement parts of the standard library due to Luau having dropped things like the... Source: over 1 year ago
I really like using WordGrinder, a terminal-based text editor. It has pretty much only the features I need and otherwise gets out of the way and let's me write. You can check it out here if you're interested. Source: almost 2 years ago
Vim - Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
FocusWriter - FocusWriter is a fullscreen, distraction-free word processor designed to immerse you as much as...
Micro - Modern terminal-based text editor
Scrivener - Scrivener is a content-generation tool for composing and structuring documents.
JOE - JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General...
iA Writer - Minimal Design, Maximum Focus
