wordgrinder VS writeroom-mode

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.

>WriteRoom (mac)

There's also an analogous mode[0] for emacs that works great on my ARM Mac!

[0] https://github.com/joostkremers/writeroom-mode

There are nice looking distraction-free setups with https://github.com/joostkremers/writeroom-mode or https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti or https://github.com/joaotavora/darkroom or https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs

I would look at emacs with some plugins installed to get the setup you want. A quick search led me to this: https://github.com/joostkremers/writeroom-mode

Doom emacs already comes with writeroom-mode for distraction-free writing with doom-specific improvements in the :ui zen module.

I really enjoy using writeroom-mode for distraction-free writing in Emacs. I have it bound to a key in org-mode, even.

Writing: writeroom-mode, wc-goal-mode, flyspell, and adding some nice aesthetic options. I created some tips for writing in org-mode here.