rwiir

rwiir - prose editor

rwiir (which stands for ReWrite It In Rust and is pronounced "rewire") is a prose editor - which is to say a specialized word processor for writing prose texts. Prior art in this genre includes Scrivener, from which a lot of inspiration is taken.

You may be asking - "Why should I write my next story in rwiir?" Here's some of the design decisions that went into creating it:

• Saves to a human-readable format - plain UTF-8 text with occasional intuitive use of escape characters. If you don't like the program, you still have your work in a format that can easily be migrated.
• One save file contains many individual 'buffers'.
• Minimalist, no-fuss interface that word-wraps text to a comfortable 80 characters.
• Uses the familiar and powerful Emacs keybindings, or at your option the less powerful but more widespread CUA/Windows bindings
• Exports to HTML, Markdown, and TiddlyWiki, with more output formats (including ebook and PDF) planned.
• Free - libre and gratis - software with no telemetry (if you care about that sort of thing). No choice between exorbitant license fees, corporate surveillance, and sketchy piracy. It's free and always will be.

Usage

rwiir explains itself using its on-line help system, which can be accessed by pressing F1 once the program is launched. You will see a "cheat sheet" of keybindings.

rwiir can export to single files, or directories with one file per buffer. Any buffer whose name contains a hash (#, ASCII 0x23) will not be exported unless explicitly selected for export.

Roadmap/Future Plans

• A corkboard/outliner/other features not in MVP
• More element types
  • Tables
  • Lists
• More intuitive UI in a few places:
  • New buffer
  • Selecting output file
• More pages of help

Copying

rwiir is Copyright (C) 2023 japanoise, and is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL) version 3, or any later version.