Minor mode for experiencing all the joys of a typewriter.
Forked from Peter Vasil’s typewriter-mode. \
Inspired by Bob Newell’s writer-mode.
Typewriters are awesome. Take it from this guy:
“Writing on a manual [typewriter] makes you slower in a good way, I think. You don’t revise as much, you just think more, because you know you’re going to have to retype the entire (flipping) thing. Which is a big stop on just slapping anything down and playing with it.” – Will Self
I made this because I have always wanted a typewriter, but I couldn’t ever get a real one. This is also for those who wish to relive the days of the noisy typewriter, or to experience a taste of it for the first time, on a computer screen. I myself fall in the latter category (I do suppose, however, that most people using Emacs are old enough to have experienced typewriters. I might be one of the few late millennials using good ol’ Emacs).
- Typewriter sounds
- Typewriter-style editing
- Buffer scrolls to simulate carriage movement
- Restricts editing to append-only and overstrike (slightly buggy, but can be disabled)
- Evil integration (uncomment code to enable)
(require 'typewriter)
M-x typewriter-mode
C-x ttypewriter-mode