Running on Haiku (cf BeOS), need a good text editor :)

I don't know if it will work, but Dr. Wicked's Write or Die is now downloadable to a desktop or laptop/netbook. It's shareware, though, at $10. You might take a look and see if it's doable. Good luck!

Dana
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Here's my input: are you crazy?!? :) I guess you are doing NaNo.

Qt has been ported as of a scant few hours ago, so I believe you'll have to work to get it up and running. Then you could wrestle with getting TextRoom up and running. Also, has Java been ported yet? There is jDarkRoom if so.

Failing those, you'll probably have the best luck configuring vim on this short notice. Of course you can get plenty of help with your .vimrc. You'll want to autowrap text, re-map the up and down keys so that it traverses the wrapped lines (instead of just jumping paragraphs), find a good word count vim function (the ones I've seen pretty much all use the unix "wc" command, which Haiku should have). I assume the terminal emulator supports colors as well, and you might be able to find a timer/alarm function. If it's Vim 7, you could have a spell checker as well, but that's not too important for NaNo.

Here's something to get you started:

" set text width
:set tw=80
" automatically indent new paragraphs
:set ai
" always autoformat paragraphs and wrap at text width
:set fo=at

Settings to remap the keys in the various modes here (HTML gobbles up the < and > in these posts).

Some live word count functions here, including one that doesn't require wc.

You're on your own for the timer/alarm function though - you might have to write that one yourself.

Hey there!

thanks for the responses. yes, I realise I should just stick with vi; the Terminal app is more than adequate, and does allow all sorts of customisations that I've already made. In terms of my .vimrc, I'll definitely have a look around; if I get sick of trying to set anything else up for this NaNo, I can at least have a mighty powerful editor to work in. :p

I know Qt has been mostly ported, which is great, but it doesn't yet have a native hook into the Haiku/Be GUI, so it'll look like a Qt app; but since TextRoom operates with very, very few controls, it doesn't really matter, now does it :)

I have the source for TextRoom, and will look at trying to recompile that with Qt under Haiku, to see if I can't at least get something running.

Java support is minimal, and I could never get BeKaffe to work without segmentation faults :p OpenJDK/JVN implementations are underway, but it will take some time.

After this NaNo, at least, I will work on a native app for Haiku for this sort of deal. It would just be so nice to have, and it will use the least amount of resources, with is truly the raison d'etre of Haiku (and Be :p).

Someting here might work

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BeOS_programs

r you could go he googledocs route

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