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> Just let me write

TextEdit all the way.

I used to edit a market-leading print magazine with TextEdit. I don’t need layout features, the designers do that in InDesign. I don’t need a grammar checker or AI because I can write.

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I am old school. I write books and print them out to edit with red pen. Need all of Word's print features. Not everyone is a "digital writer."

Allow me to introduce you to WordStar, in the "modern" context of Joe's Own Editor.

https://gizmodo.com/sci-fi-writer-releases-free-archive-of-l...

https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Own_Editor

Edit: I once used WordStar 4 with a daisywheel printer.

> I write books and print them out to edit with red pen. Need all of Word's print features.

The latter really doesn't follow from the former. All? Sounds like you need basic printing..

TextEdit is my editor of choice for 90% of all RTF word processing that I do, when on a Mac.

Do you have a copyeditor and/or proofreader? I'm a production editor. Part of my job is to fix stuff written by people who can write.

You can still proof it. Op is just saying they don't need spellcheck (perhaps because they do have an editor).

Actually the OP specifically said “grammar” checker, which since they can write is likely an intentional distinction. Alternate phrasings reveal the absurd elitism of the statement.

“I don’t need a spellchecker because I can spell.”

“I don’t need a calculator because I can do math.”

As a longtime copy editor and proofreader, I would have to agree that spellcheckers and grammar checkers are not worth shit.

Your comma after features should be a semicolon, but I’m sure you knew that!

No, it needn't be.

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