You can train yourself not to edit. It just takes practice.
Or a text editor that won’t allow it:
stty erase ″; cat >>myessay
If you still want backspace, you can omit the first bit of that. If you still want to be able to edit within the current line:
rlwrap cat >>myessay
Edited to add:
Not that I necessarily think this is a good idea, but it might be an interesting thing to experiment with.
rlwrap is especially useful if you have a tendency to say almost exactly the same thing over and over again. Just press the up arrow, and a copy of what you wrote before appears, allowing you to say almost exactly the same thing over and over again.
Actually, never mind, that’s silly.
You can train yourself not to edit. It just takes practice.
Or a text editor that won’t allow it:
stty erase ″; cat >>myessay
If you still want backspace, you can omit the first bit of that. If you still want to be able to edit within the current line:
rlwrap cat >>myessay
Edited to add:
Not that I necessarily think this is a good idea, but it might be an interesting thing to experiment with.
rlwrap is especially useful if you have a tendency to say almost exactly the same thing over and over again. Just press the up arrow, and a copy of what you wrote before appears, allowing you to say almost exactly the same thing over and over again.
Actually, never mind, that’s silly.