editors that don't really delete
editors that dont really delete,
or just an excuse to build editors
Reading good authors’ drafts brings insight and transparency
to their writing process. Reading people’s thought out edits
on online fora can bring the conversation to life.
Why not make a forum where everything you delete as you type
or edit can still be accessed? The users / writers, aware of
this, will write with a different mindset; let’s see if it’s
of any use!
Implement one or several POC editors that keep deleted text
accessible.
Instead of a full blown history graph, I currently choose to
flatten deleted text. The point is not to scroll through
history, just to see the accumulated attempts.
Here‘s
a screencast of nano.py
in action.
Here’s an example of a session in ed
:
- $ ed
- >a
- hello world
- .
- >s/hello/goodbye
- goodbye world
- >P
hellogoodbye world