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I recently (finally) moved a bunch of my poems and short stories and other writings off of Google Docs and into a git repo of text files. Right now I'm editing them with VSCode or Zed, which I just found and like so far. Both are fine but not really geared toward writing not-code. What have y'all found that you like writing in?

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[โ€“] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't used Sublime in years, might give it another go. my source is all .md files even though hardly any of them have any markdown formatting besides the occasional bulleted list, but I like having the option to do some light formatting if I want. I think what I'll most likely do is find (or in the most dire case, make) plugins for whatever editor I land on to make writing easier. The problem I tend to face is that most editors have too many features and options and they are built for a slightly different purpose (writing code vs writing prose) which makes them just different enough to be irritating.

[โ€“] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 3 months ago

When I write prose I tend to ignore most options. Sublime has a "no distractions" mode but I hardly use it.