The "no delete" feature is super-weird to begin with and takes a lot of getting used to. If your workflow is to edit-in-place all the time then Earnest is probably not for you.
Thanks for checking it out.
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.