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Show HN: Fri – distraction-free writing in the terminal

#1

Post by farnerup » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 6:15 PM UTC

Of all the software I have written, this may be the one that has been most useful to me personally. If you find it useful as well, I'd love to know.

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Re: Show HN: Fri – distraction-free writing in the terminal

#2

Post by ibraheemdev » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 8:18 PM UTC

I use Vim + https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim.

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#3

Post by luluganeta » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 11:08 PM UTC

Thank you for sharing this, it's a beautiful writing experience. And so easy to install, it was straightforward to make it available on a Tilde server for others to try.

(one suggestion for the docs: the included man page can be installed systemwide, with "sudo cp fri.1 /usr/share/man/man1/" on Debian systems)

Edit: having Hemingway/typewriter mode (disable backspace) available as a shell flag would be wonderful :)

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#4

Post by jakecopp » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 11:35 PM UTC

ibraheemdev wrote: post #2

I use Vim + https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim .

Goyo is wonderful, it's nice to have all your vim config intact.

My only confusion is having to :q twice to exit vim :D

Re: Show HN: Fri – distraction-free writing in the terminal

#5

Post by farnerup » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 9:03 AM UTC

luluganeta wrote: post #3

Thank you for sharing this, it's a beautiful writing experience. And so easy to install, it was straightforward to make it available on a Tilde server for others to try. (one suggestion for the docs: the included man page can be installed systemwide, with "sudo cp fri.1 /usr/share/man/man1/" on Debian systems) Edit: having Hemingway/typewriter mode (disable backspace) available as a shell flag would be wonderful :)

Hemingway mode is a good idea!

As for the man page, I don't want to recommend anyone to install files manually in /usr. The man page is there mostly in case anybody would want to package fri for a distribution.

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#6

Post by farnerup » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 10:44 AM UTC

luluganeta wrote: post #3

Thank you for sharing this, it's a beautiful writing experience. And so easy to install, it was straightforward to make it available on a Tilde server for others to try. (one suggestion for the docs: the included man page can be installed systemwide, with "sudo cp fri.1 /usr/share/man/man1/" on Debian systems) Edit: having Hemingway/typewriter mode (disable backspace) available as a shell flag would be wonderful :)

I have released v1.1.0 with Hemingway mode now.