retext VS wpunix

There are also options such as ghostwriter or retext that work with a specific lightweight text markup language and can display a WYSIWYG output.

Write it in markdown and then c&p the render, you can use this: https://github.com/retext-project/retext Needs a little adjustment sometimes but it saves you a lot of work

Not sure if it has the hotkey support you want, but I've always liked ReText for its preview capabilities.

Have you tried ReText? It's limited on the themes, you'll have to import them, but behaves quite good with system theme (here on Plasma at least)

Not sure if they'll work on Alpine, but there's WordTsar (a Wordstar clone) and WordPerfect. Alternatively, you could run Word 5.5 in DOSBox.

WordPerfect is a thing, still, and while its way more powerful, some would consider to be pretty clunky in terms of usability.

Perhaps tangential, but there is a Pandoc marco [0] for this program to DOCX via RTF. But I agree, I can do all sorts of things but eventually I am often required to get a document in DOCX. Love Pandoc.

[0] https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/issues/17

A text editor and a word processor are different things. There are things you can do very easily in a word processor that are difficult in a text editor, and vice versa. I actually wrote a FAQ about this!

https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/wiki/FAQ#q-why-not-just-use

(Fwiw, I'm a daily vim user)

In fact, WordPerfect for UNIX does work on Linux, see here.