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FocusedEdit
Posted by: choongng on 2022-10-02 09:32:42
Just saw this linked somewhere else, looks very cool:

Introducing FocusedEdit for classic Macintosh

Introducing FocusedEdit What is FocusedEdit?FocusedEdit is a new text editor for classic Macintosh computers (running System 2 through MacOS 9.2.2) an
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"FocusedEdit is a new text editor for classic Macintosh computers (running System 2 through MacOS 9.2.2) and the CoprocessorJS library that allows shared bidirectional text editing with a modern computer within a web browser window.

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"FocusedEdit will allow you to easily work on text documents on a classic Macintosh and then instantly use them on your modern computer. For example, I’ve been typing up confluence documents, emails, slack messages, etc. for work on a Macintosh Quadra 700 and then pasting them out of the FocusedEdit website when I’m done typing them up. I even wrote and edited the markdown document that generated this blog post using FocusedEdit!
Posted by: Crutch on 2022-10-02 12:52:06
That is really cool! I wish I didn’t have to have a physical serial connection between the vintage and modern machines to use it, though. Would love to be able to do this over MacTCP.
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