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So, people are writing adverts* for discovering full screen editors?

c'mon, i remember my editors of choice doing that since the late 80s. even under windows. under linux it's not even fair play to mention this.

Those people will have their heads blow away when the find out that /modern/ text-editors not only have full screen but better way to navigate the text and perform auto correction. ...just let them catch up with the progress made on the 90s. heck, vim can have word count on the status bar since what? the 70s?

* i consider the article to be an advertisement for the mac editor, even if unintentional



WriteRoom uses a standard Mac OS X text field IIRC, and as such uses Mac OS X's built-in auto correction and spell check...


exactly my point. the guy makes a living writing, and never bothered to look for better text editors.

he is chanting about the progress of default text editors when all that was available from day one of his career.

it's like a developer with 30yr of experience just finding out version control




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