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As an Evil user, I concur. Perhaps it could be implemented through a plug-in architecture, with some LISP-like interface.. :)
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#22Hi! I am interested in this. Do you have an email?
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#23I use ms word for everything: words, letters, programming, hate mail, memos, thoughts, poetry, laundry lists, lists of lists, suicide notes, et cetera et cetera et cetera
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#24Different colour themes. I find it a lot easier working with light text on a dark background, others may differ in their preference. The Scratch editor written by the elementaryOS guys has some very nice themes, Gedit for the Gnome DE is not bad either.
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#25For academics, you can pry Latex from their cold dead hands, so better include a Latex mode. Personally, I like emacs and I think that modes, aka the plug-in architecture has really a lot of merit, so try to expose as much as possible of the documents to a plug-in api. ( That one only becomes important when your project is very successful, but perhaps it is good thing to keep in mind.) One thing I would like to see i…
Awesome; but what do you reckon the best way to implement a corkboard is when it's entirely possible that you're dealing with individual documents, not Scrivener's groups of them? (Sorry, that sounds snarky; it's a genuine question; one global corkboard, per folder, or what?)
Sorry for the late answer, just seen your reply.
Again I am thinking about emacs, there you could have multiple cork boards, with multiple Windows. So basically, you open a cork board view, which in the background has a cork board buffer. And in principle you can then open a second cork board window to the same buffer, so that you can lock at two different places at once.
As for how to implement it, I am not sure, my crazy first idea would be as a clip board on steroids. So you mark some text and a index card with the text appears in the cork board.
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#261. Because stories are long, it should have multiple views for the same file. SO that writers can recap what they have written much earlier without losing their current context.
2. Quick find for "Markers" / sections of the writing, so that one can easily scroll up to Chapter 1.2, say.
3. Multi-cursor like Sublime Text to edit multiple mentions of the same name, say
4. Spell-check, it is rudimentary.