https://github.com/jbreckmckye/dead-simple-text

Minimalist plain text editor for the web
https://github.com/jbreckmckye/dead-simple-text

prototype text-editor

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Minimalist plain text editor for the web

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jbreckmckye/dead-simple-text
• Owner: jbreckmckye
• License: agpl-3.0
• Created: 2018-09-03T21:34:09.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-11T22:09:12.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-05T23:37:19.710Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: prototype, text-editor
• Language: TypeScript
• Homepage: https://www.breck-mckye.com/dead-simple-text
• Size: 497 KB
• Stars: 54
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# Dead Simple Text

Sometimes you just need plain text:

https://www.breck-mckye.com/dead-simple-text/

Dead Simple Text is a web-based text editor with minimalistic design inspired by MS DOS edit / QBASIC. It handles local

files and a single "journal" document kept in `localstorage`.

I wrote this for myself as an aid for writing notes, stories, blog posts etc. It's shared here in case anyone else 

would like to play with it.

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3148617/50551486-ef2fb200-0c78-11e9-84a8-b73da67f5a4e.png)

I wrote DST for fairly simple reasons: I wanted a cross-platform 'distraction free' text editor, and the ones that 

existed never quite satisfied me in terms of design.

## User guide

By default, the app opens the "journal" document, `Dead Simple Text.txt`, which is synchronised with `localstorage`. If

you change the filename you fork a new, non-synchronised document.

- `New` clears the document

- `Load` opens a local text file

- `Save` downloads the text file

- `Help` goes here

- `TAB` indents the selection

- `SHIFT+TAB` un-indents the selection

- `F6` untraps the tab key (for accessibility)

### How do I set a filename?

The filename is in the top right - click to edit it.

## Building locally

`npm run build`

## License

Dead Simple Text is offered as open source software under the AGPL license. Copyright Jimmy Breck-McKye 2024