> On Apr 07, 2011 at 04:15 PM -0400, Eric Weir wrote:
>
> >Still, as I imagine many are, I'm a bit intimidated complexity of the
> >commands and the steep learning curve. 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?
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I used to be a translator. In the final years of this 'career' I used
Gvim as a sort of frontend to Microsoft Word and translation software.
I found that combination of autocompletion, autocorrection, marks,
sessions, the convenience of keyboard only editing, Vim's speed and
reliability, and the ease with which complicated commands can be
assigned to keystrokes helped me to become both a faster and a more
accurate typist. The added bonus was that sometimes I had to make
changes in exported translation memories (plain text files) and my Vim
knowledge saved many an hour of line by line corrections.
So I'd say: use Vim and learn a little every day. You can change
litterally everything in Vim, including its looks and what happens if
you type "\t". You could probably even make it behave like Wordstar.
John
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