: Re: Make Emacs (or vim etc) like Ulysses For many years I have been trying to find a good text editor for writing fiction. I have used Scrivener, Ulysses and others but they seem slow and you

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As someone who also gets frustrated at the layers of complexity that are
inherent in modern packages and often falls back to notepad as a means of just getting down to a basic editor I did particular enjoy the thought of doing any sort of creative writing in vim. (that would be impressively hardcore!)

So I've particularly enjoyed this question (I should probably upvote it for that) it occurred to me that maybe a good editor for doing this stuff in would be atom A text editor created by the creator of github. as stated on their blurb page...

Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file.

The core idea of atom is that it is a desktop editor based on web technologies. So it is all built as HTML / CSS with themes and packages that are (apparently!) easy to build, share, transfer. It also runs on Linux, Windows and Mac. You could actually end up with a piece of software that stored its data on github (etc) and had an identical look and feel no matter what OS you were on.

I actually think it could be made into a fully fledged piece of creative writing software, that would have the power to give any of the mainstream pieces of software a decent challenge. (so if anyone wants to start an open source project, maybe we could get together...)

I'm actually writing this in it now, and it is surprisingly nice to compose in. (or decompose, depending on your mood) In the time I've written this message, I think I may have found my new editor - for the time being anyway.

Its worth a look.

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