I've downloaded and installed a copy of MacVim. I've peeked at a few of the help topics. [I'd like to run the tutorial, but haven't figured out how to do that, yet.] I'm not a programmer. Far from it. I'm intrigued for a least a couple reasons, the main one being the fact that Vim is command-driven, that everything's done from the keyboard. [My very first experience with an "editor" was with Wordstar on CPM, and I've missed doing everything from the keyboard ever since.] The outliner plugins appeal to me as well. [I was a long-time devote of MaxThink, running it in a DOS Window after moving to Windows from DOS, and in DOSBox under Linux and now on a Mac.] And so does the possibility of using it as a file manager as well as editor.
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?
hmm, well I use Vim for programming mainly, but personally I'd use it for anything involving text
two more features you might find useful for plain ol' writing:
- spell checking :h spell (basically, :set spell, then z= to correct a word)
- insert mode word completion :h i_ctrl-p (type the start of a word, then ctrl+p to complete it)
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