Show HN: Featureless text editor

10 points by epikur 12 years ago | 10 comments

http://notlikethesun.com/spaceconsole/

Convenient if you want to compose a special tweet, email, or note without the distraction of your inbox or other environment.

Scroll up or down to control the speed of the stars. The starfield Javascript is from Christophe Résigné - https://github.com/chiptune/js/blob/master/starfield.html

wingerlang 12 years ago |

I just open sublime/notepad when I want to have an super fast plain text editor. Usually when I want to remove formatting or when I write an email I accidentally do not want to send.

kalehrishi 12 years ago |

data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

just put this in address bar. simplest text editor ever

autotravis 12 years ago | |

Then ctrl+s when you're done to save an html file of your input.

bloometal 12 years ago | |

Coolest. Thing. Ever. I just bookmarked that.

BWStearns 12 years ago |

Just a bug (or a feature? 0_o ), in Chrome at least it only lets me create two lines, after that it begins writing over the second line. Other than that it's pretty soothing lol.

epikur 12 years ago | |

Hmm, I'm not able to reproduce that. Did you happen to paste anything in? Currently the contenteditable div gets a little jumbled when you paste in anything that isn't plaintext.

BWStearns 12 years ago | | |

Hmm. I just tried and was unable to reproduce it as well. Maybe I copy/pasted something in that it didn't like? Sorry for the false report, I'll mess around a bit and see if I can get it to work again.

epikur 12 years ago |

Clickable link: http://notlikethesun.com/spaceconsole/

Walkman 12 years ago |

OmmWriter is much better than this: http://www.ommwriter.com/

epikur 12 years ago | |

Nice! I'll observe that they definitely spent more than 10 minutes making that.