I like to correct obvious mistakes, such as typos, when i see it. I like to insert a paragraph, or a phrase, on a early section, when i think of it. I like to erase whole paragraphs that a new one I just wrote contradict or substitute.
I am starting to write some essays and this would be perfect, except for this write-only. You disrupted too much my process.
I certainly wouldn't view it as a substitute for a regular editor, but a tool for a different job.
Thanks for checking it out.
Put another way -- you don't have to make something entirely impossible to discourage a user from doing it. What other ways are there to reduce in-place editing?
Just one idea: don't show what people are writing for more than a few seconds, and then gradually fade it away.
It's perfectly sensible and appropriate that such a request would be rejected. It's really no different than, say, requesting that the directory listing functionality of the ls command be removed. Yeah, it is a suggestion, but it's surely not a viable one.
EDIT: and it works on smartphones, too, which I've personally been using to get some writing done on my galaxy note 2 while on the go or at the coffee shop/bar.
They avoid the distractions of spell checking and all that, while still saving files locally, and while still allowing you to delete text you've written.