Thursday, April 7, 2011

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 04:15:37PM -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?

Not at all. I don't program other than writing occasional shell
scripts. Most of my use of Vim is for writing prose. Using
anything else for composition and editing is unthinkable.
Whenever I try to use a word processor or other editor for
writing, the document ends up with unwanted auto-formatting and
tell-tail Vim commands in the text.

Go through the vimtutor included with the program, but also read
the user manual (:h usr_toc). It is based on the book "Vi
IMproved--Vim", which is an in-depth tutorial. The user manual is
truly excellent.

--
Scott Bicknell

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