Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

On 08 Apr 2011, Magnus Woldrich wrote:
> On 2011-04-07 16:15, Eric Weir wrote:
> >So, I'm wondering if there are any ordinary, nonprogrammer writers here
> >who've gotten comfortable with Vim as a writer's editor -- or is that
> >just ridiculous to think of?
>
> Though they sure are programmers, I'd like to point out that Tom Christiansen
> used Vim when writing the Perl Cookbook [0] (his co-author Nathan Torkington
> used emacs).
>

I'm not a programmer, except for the occasional very simple shell
script, but I use vim for all my writing. (I write books, both hard copy
and ebooks.)

I dislike word processors. (I've been forced to use OpenOffice for one
particular purpose recently and hate it.) I think that the process of
generating prose should be separate from producing print-ready copy. So
I do all my composing in Vim, which allows me to change things easily as
much as I like. If I want it to look nice I then import it into LyX,
which gives me publishable files. For short things like letters, I have
made latex templates which I read into vim.

Yes, Vim is more complex than simpler editors like nano, but the extra
facilities that Vim provides make it the better choice. I'm no Vim guru,
but I've built up my knowledge from the help files. I pick up useful
tips from time to time on this list, and when I've had specific problems
I couldn't solve, people here have been very kind with supplying
solutions. I've gradually constructed my own .vimrc and .gvimrc files.

Anthony

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