I think I found a new favourite distraction-free console wordprocessor in pure. It uses ftml, a strict and simple subset of HTML to store documents in, which means it is very easy to use in conjunction with pandoc, or to use it for publishing straight to the web.
Been using wordgrinder for a long time but this is actually just as good, even if a little bit more bare-bones.
Builds fine on OpenBSD.
Check it out here:
https://github.com/roblillack/pure
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