wordgrinder VS twin

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).

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.

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).

Some other choices: * https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder * https://github.com/spartrekus/g-editor (WS compatible)

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 io library but that's no great hardship. I like the syntax, too, which is expressive and very lightweight.

There is Wordgrinder.

In the same TUI spirit:

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin

A text mode environment and window manager, with terminal emulation, VNC-style sessions and viewers, and networked clients.

Disclaimer: I'm the author

Twin - a Textmode WINdow environment, by Massimiliano Ghilardi https://github.com/cosmos72/twin

There is a twin project that is kind of neat, providing the highest fidelity interface possible (text mode, vnc, X gui) but doesn't have terminal multiplexing built in, or a browser interface.

Is it necessary to be in tmux? twin might be an easier solution: https://github.com/cosmos72/twin https://opensource.com/article/20/1/multiple-consoles-twin

Kind of related, Textmode Window Environment is interesting.

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin

A couple screenshots are on the old SourceForge site.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/

Nice! I don't know why, but this reminded me of the port(?) of the MSDOS user interface to UNIX-like systems.

Kind of like TWIN? https://github.com/cosmos72/twin

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/ Seems its still getting some updates.

If you've never used Twin then you don't know what youre missing!