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I do, sort of. I bought a text editor a number of years ago that was very popular. I still maintain it and use it daily and have often thought about putting out a new version. I have it running on many OS's and devices now. I have also added a lot of features specific to what I wanted. I'm not really sure if they are useful to others or not.

Example: I have an iPad version where I can use an Apple Pencil and handwrite my code on the screen. To me it is very useful when my wife is driving me someplace and I still want to work. Recline in the passenger seat and code.

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That's pretty interesting, care to elaborate on how well that works? Know of any other editors that have that same capability?

I don't know of others that do this at this time. I didn't actually do any research. It is something that I wanted for myself and the way that I like to work. I prefer to hand write as much as possible. I was trying out a Surface Book just because I could hand write my e-mails!

It is working pretty well for me. I used OpenAI and basically started asking my friends to hand write samples for the NN to learn from. They write them various levels of neatness and various slants, font size, etc. I store the handwriting strokes as a series of points and convert to digital text when they are ready. I save the handwriting along side the digital version. It is possible to hand write, then come back days later and your work is still there. Maybe I could make a video to show if it is useful.

Um... Can I use it too? That sounds amazing.

really? I mean, I could probably make a version for folks to test. It only has git support and SFTP.

Committing to git currently works, push works, but sometimes says it fails. Still looking into this.

Color syntax highlighting works with your handwriting, but in the "worksheet" (an interactive shell) it does not yet.

Yea, I think it would be cool to use. The only thing I'm missing on my iPad Pro is a good way to work on programming.

alright, let me see what I can do :-) Contact me if you wish.

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