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I've tried perhaps a dozen of these writing tools, as I'm looking for one for my Android tablet. I've yet to find one where I can write more than a page worth of stuff without being forced to crane my neck to stare at the very bottom of the tablet for the entire rest of the time I'm writing.

Sublime allows me to scroll past the end, and I didn't realize just how important that feature is until I had to trudge through the endless morass of apps that don't. Predictably, this app doesn't either. I wonder how much actual writing these writing app devs actually do.

I'm not asking for an option for the cursor to stay in the middle or two thirds of the way down the screen, though that would be really really really nice. But scroll-past-end is essential.

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> I wonder how much actual writing these writing app devs actually do.

Writing app dev here. Not nearly enough is the answer.

Building a writing app is probably the greatest mistake I ever made as a writer, because I spend 75% of my free time fixing bugs, following up with users and building features and the other 25% writing.

I say it's my worst mistake as a writer. But as a coder it's been a very rewarding experience and helped me land my current job

VIM [1], Emacs [2], intellij based ides over ideavim's set scrolloff 999 command like in vim [3], Atom [4], ...

[1] http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Keep_your_cursor_centered_vertical...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/edt/Scro...

[3] https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/blob/master/doc/set-com...

[4] https://atom.io/packages/scrolloff

Parent is interested in running on an Android tablet, so emacs or vim running in termux would probably work well for him.

https://termux.com/

Will surely look into this feature.

Answering your question of "I wonder how much actual writing these writing app devs actually do?". I am not sure about other developers but I love to write and I write about 1000 words everyday. From my point of view this is the tool I would love to have found earlier. This was the need for me to build this tool in the first place.

I really appreciate you sharing your opinion will surely look into what's possible.

Thanks

There's money in this space. I've spent maybe $30 just looking for the right app, only to come up empty.

Sure, I agree with you, I too have spend a few dollars here and there trying to find the perfect writing utility.

.my-3 { padding-bottom: 75vh; }

does the trick.

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