QuiEdit: An Editor for Anyone Who wants a Quiet Life

Is this a joke? Hey, it looks like the first app for GNOME 4 is here. (See: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120402 ) It fits in perfectly.

I'm all for minimalism but I don't see the point of this editor, sorry.

The point is probably expressed better in this earlier LXer story:

Pyroom Text Editor Does Minimalism the Right Way http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/167333/index.html

But it's really aimed at "creative writing" usage. No mouse, no fiddling, no email notifications or instant messaging alerts. Many "creative" types rave about similar apps that can be purchased for Mac and even for PC.

I tried PyRoom after reading the article, and liked it well enough to gladly leave it on my system.

This QuiEdit one seems to be more aimed at people wanting/needing html, and probably does not quite provide the "distraction-free" creative bubble that this sort of application aims to create. I'm guessing it's essentially a "PyRoom for Bloggers".

I like this kind of editors. I always use them for creative (and sometimes academic) writing. But this QuiEdit is somewhat weird with html format, why should I use a text editor if it saves as html?

My choice is Sublime Text 2. I know that it is mainly a coding tool but it also has really great packages for prose. Word count, distraction free mode, best spell check I have ever seen in a text editor, easy way to format the text and convert to pdf with xetex, multiple tabs (and columns) for outline-drafts-notes-snippets-chapters, a nice open files sidebar, a minimap...

In my experience, nothing manages to beat it. Word Processors are jokes for creative and academic writing anyway, I never understood their values while writing a story or an essay.

This editors are really great. But you have you use them to get them Caitlyn. There is really no value in second hand accounts.

distraction free editing?

vim in a terminal, fullscreen. turn off the status line if that bothers you.

greetings, eMBee.

Quoting: In my experience, nothing manages to beat it. Word Processors are jokes for creative and academic writing anyway, I never understood their values while writing a story or an essay.

Using a word processor (OpenOffice and now LibreOffice) doesn't seem to slow Piers Anthony down.

If we are continuing with argumentum ad verecundiams, Neal Stephenson does not use word processors and he beats Piers Anthony =)

Word processors do slow me down. They use binary formats and are tend to file corruptions. There are a plethora of options I will never use nor will ever need and that options slow the software down. Writing itself and typesetting are different jobs and word processors force you to deal with both at the same time. That is more than my fragile mind can handle. While writing some creative or academic work I only want to compose the text, not spend effort for typesetting too. Playing with fonts, margins, line spaces, titles, italics and bolds are distracting and I believe must be left for editing phrase.

ASCII is portable, small, and works everywhere. You don't care about typesetting while writing and after writing is done I edit and format what I wrote in XeTeX before creating a pdf. But I am checking reStructuredText these days. It seems very good for non-academic writing.

@GERGE, each to their own.

Peirs Anthony seems to manage the equivalent of 5 novels a year on a word processor, which blows the argument that "Word Processors are jokes for creative and academic writing" out of the water. There are obviously writers who are quite productive using wordprocessors.

There's tons of people who use Word to write emails of all things, and who basically use full-fledged word processors as glorified text editors. Doesn't mean it's the best tool for the job (it isn't), but people use them anyway. It's just like how tons of people in my city use gigantic gas-guzzling trucks with lift kits and giant off-road tires so they can drive on the freeway to the mall.

Authors using word processors probably aren't bothering with fonts, margins, etc., and simply leave that stuff for their editors to mess with (perhaps even importing the text into a typesetting program). Italics and bolds, however, do seem to be part of the writing phase to me. I'm fairly sure that anyone writing a novel in LaTeX would also insert bold and italics as they're typing, rather than leaving that for later. Text emphasis is a quite different thing from page formatting.