Does anyone know a non-laggy text editor?

[Deleted member 68927]

Word, for some reason, lags when I type too fast. Which, if it has problems registering my 50 wpm, does not give me much faith in the program. Does anyone know about a writing site or an editor which I could use, which won't lag? I will keep Office 365 because the grammar checker is really good, and I can use the text to voice option, but every time I get in the flow, words starts to lag, and I am like: wait, what was I going to write again?

 

[SRB]

Pen and paper.

 

[Deleted member 146224]

Try Libre Office and maybe Google Docs? If you want free. Scrivener if paid is okay

 

[Deleted member 68927]

Try Libre Office and maybe Google Docs? If you want free. Scrivener if paid is okay

I will try Scrivener, thanks. It has a free trial version, so that is good.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

Vim (or gVim in your case)

 

[JackyHF]

I use Notepad++ and Google Docs.

 

[Dark_Phoenix_Zaetyk]

Google docs

 

[Deleted member 68927]

Try Libre Office and maybe Google Docs? If you want free. Scrivener if paid is okay

Scrivener is pretty neat! Just bought a license! (A bit pricey, but that is a one-time purchase, so I guess that is fine!) Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[TASTYLEADPAINT]

Word, for some reason, lags when I type too fast. Which, if it has problems registering my 50 wpm, does not give me much faith in the program. Does anyone know about a writing site or an editor which I could use, which won't lag? I will keep Office 365 because the grammar checker is really good, and I can use the text to voice option, but every time I get in the flow, words starts to lag, and I am like: wait, what was I going to write again?

As a fellow office I had this issue and the cause was the crappy laptop I was using. As for alternatives I would us Google docs or word online

 

[Deleted member 146224]

Scrivener is pretty neat! Just bought a license! (A bit pricey, but that is a one-time purchase, so I guess that is fine!) Thanks for the suggestion!

I love Scrivener! I'm glad you enjoy it!

 

[greyliliy]

Scrivener is pretty neat! Just bought a license! (A bit pricey, but that is a one-time purchase, so I guess that is fine!) Thanks for the suggestion!

I'll also throw in support for Scrivener. It's a fantastic editor for novels that keeps all of your notes.

The compile function in particular is amazing, especially if you start self publishing.

 

[Zinless]

 

[Deleted member 76176]

I use mousepad as a GUI text editor and nano or Neovim—depending on the configuration I'm dealing with—as the terminal text editor. I know people who use Neovim also for note-taking and mark-down writing, but honestly, I'm not sure regular people would want to go through the steep learning curve to just use a god-forsaken text editor.

For writing, Joplin, perhaps. It's an Electron app, so I can't guarantee it wouldn't be buggy. But it supports markdown and is so far in a workable state for me.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Notepad ++

 

[greyblob]

Notepad ++

with grammar checker plugin

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

with grammar checker plugin

speech plug in too

 

[melchi]

emacs

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

emacs

org mode

 

[ThatTwat3000]

View attachment 30620

touch chapter-1.txt
sudo nano chapter-1.txt
[typing noises]
ctrl+x
enter
enter
git add .
git commit -m “Wrote three words, wheeee!"
git push -u origin main

 

[3guanoff]

touch chapter-1.txt
sudo nano chapter-1.txt
[typing noises]
ctrl+x
enter
enter
git add .
git commit -m “Wrote three words, wheeee!"
git push -u origin main

someone forgot

rm -rf /*