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   lproven (lproven@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 05:19:18 JST lproven

   I finally got round to publishing a version 1.0 of my long-running hobby project: a bootable DOS live USB image with tools for writers, providing a distraction-free writing environment.

   https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos

   This is very rushed and the instructions are incomplete. Only FAT16 for now; FAT32 coming real soon now.

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     lproven (lproven@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 04:50:29 JST lproven

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     • Samuel

     @samuel A big reason is that the available selection of console mode writing tools is awful, whereas there are lots of superb ones for DOS.

     I personally wouldn't wish Vim or Emacs on anybody. I know they have many fans, but I detest them both. David Given's WordGrinder is about the only one.

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 04:50:29 JST valhalla

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     • Samuel

     @lproven @samuel my partner uses joe rather than vim like a normal person :D because it has almost the same keybindings as wordpress, which he was used to from turbo pascal under dos.

     my fingers require vi-like keybindings, however, so I don't have personal experience :)

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     Samuel (samuel@social.meenzen.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 04:50:30 JST Samuel

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     @lproven why not just use a tty-only linux live environment?

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     lproven (lproven@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 22:06:57 JST lproven

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     • Samuel

     @valhalla @samuel Did you mean WordStar rather than "WordPress"?

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 22:06:57 JST valhalla

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     • Samuel
     @lproven @samuel errr, yes