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1TYPEWRITER
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4Every keystroke clicks. The bell rings at column 80.
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6A distraction-free editor with the soul of a mechanical
7typewriter. Recorded key strikes are embedded in the binary, the
8paper is warm, and there is nothing in the window but the page.
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10v0.4.0  |  Windows / macOS / Linux  |  C / SDL2 / FreeType
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12Download the binaryRead the source
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14There is no sidebar, no minimap, and no status bar full of
15extensions. There is a page, and the sound of typing on it —
16recorded mechanical strikes with concurrent playback, so fast
17typing sounds like fast typing.
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19One C file, near-zero CPU at idle, and a single self-contained
20executable: sounds, icon and the typewriter face are all
21embedded, and SDL2 links in statically.
22 
23WHAT IT DOES
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25 
26* Real typewriter sounds
27  Recorded key strikes compiled into the binary as headers, with
28  overlapping playback for a genuinely tactile feel.
29 
30* Paper themes
31  Classic Cream, Dark Mode and Terminal Green, with optional
32  coffee rings, ink spills and creases drawn procedurally.
33 
34* Find and replace
35  A custom dialog in keeping with the rest of the machine,
36  rather than a system one.
37 
38* Undo
39  A 512-entry history, so a bad paragraph is never final.
40 
41* Settings that persist
42  Sounds, line numbers and theme are saved to typewriter.ini
43  beside the executable.
44 
45* Hisashi menu bar
46  With Hisashi running, File / Edit / View / Help appear in its
47  menu bar with every option and shortcut. Off by default.
48 
49FROM THE KEYBOARD
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51 
52ctrl+k          Options — sounds, line numbers, themes
53ctrl+f          Find and replace
54ctrl+z          Undo
55ctrl+o          Open a .txt, .md or .ini file
56ctrl+s          Save
57 
58ON SCREEN
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60 
61Typewriter — Classic Cream
62 
63BUILD IT YOURSELF
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65 
66$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2 mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_ttf
67$ mingw32-make
68$ mingw32-make STATIC=1   # links SDL2, SDL2_ttf and FreeType in
69$ make                    # macOS and Linux
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71================================================================
72Settings        typewriter.ini, beside the exe
73Binary          self-contained, nothing to install
74Formats         .txt, .md, .ini
75Signing         not code-signed
76Themes          3, plus paper effects
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