Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:38 PM, tux. <der_tuxman@arcor.de> wrote:

Eric Weir schrob am 07.04.2011 22:15:

> 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?

I use Vim (also) as a blog draft editor, so, mainly, yes. However, the
full power of its command mode may be a bit too complicated just for
writing plain text...

What you can remember is aside from a few things, you can use macvim with the mouse as you get used to it. I actually did my learning curve in about 6-8 hours and got productive (I am a programmer), and for about a week kept looking things up and adding to my kbd commands.... if you do this and take things one at a time I actually think you can have fun learning it. Just dont be too hard on yourself, allow mouse use for awhile :)

For me it came down to getting a few simple things straight like using nerdtree as file browser, learning how to grep / vimgrep to search, and how to find and replace. I would think if you are just using to edit text you could get up to speed pretty fast.
 

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