wordgrinder
A word processor which gets the hell out of your way and lets you get some work done. (by davidgiven)
wpunix
WordPerfect for UNIX Character Terminals (by taviso)
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| 820 | 590 | |
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| 8.2 | 0.0 | |
| 8 days ago | 10 months ago | |
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wordgrinder
Posts with mentions or reviews of wordgrinder.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-22.
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How would you write a novel in Word/Pages?
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).
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Lightweight Word Processor
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.
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Is there a way to have a full TUI desktop environment?
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).
- WordGrinder: Terminal-based distraction free word processor
- Word Grinder: Terminal Based Distraction Free Word Processor
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What are some linux utilities/tools/apps you would want to have, that don't exist and think would be really useful.
Some other choices: * https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder * https://github.com/spartrekus/g-editor (WS compatible)
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Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically!
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.
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Wife asked if we could get rid of this old coffee mug.
There is Wordgrinder.
wpunix
Posts with mentions or reviews of wpunix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-06.
- Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
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Rich word processor for Alpine
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.
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Lightweight Word Processor
WordPerfect is a thing, still, and while its way more powerful, some would consider to be pretty clunky in terms of usability.
- WordPerfect for Unix character terminals
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WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals
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
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Word Grinder: Terminal Based Distraction Free Word Processor
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)
- Internet Explorer 11 will be removed tomorrow through a Microsoft Edge update
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Is there a TUI/CLI WYSIWYG Editor with Autosave?
In fact, WordPerfect for UNIX does work on Linux, see here.
What are some alternatives?
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snapdrop - A Progressive Web App for local file sharing
123elf - A native port of Lotus 1-2-3 to Linux.