Re: Full screen writing, a la Omm Writer in vim

On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Ben Fritz wrote:

> On Friday, December 7, 2012 11:57:00 AM UTC-6, robslav wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I really dig the full screen writing and sound features of Omm Writer, and I
>> was wondering if there was any way to customize vim to do a similar thing.
>> Would this be possible with a vimscript? I don't know much about scripting
>> vim, but I would like to learn more, especially if I could get all the great
>> vim keyboard control in a zen environment.
>
> Believe it or not, not everybody uses Omm Writer and therefore don't know
> what the full screen writing is. I'm not sure what you mean and the official
> Omm Writer site wasn't too useful in finding out right away.
>
> If you want to remove GUI elements like scrollbars, menus, and buttons from
> gvim, see :help 'guioptions'
>
> Maximizing the window to full screen is done by your OS desktop environment.
>
> For sound, Vim doesn't do that. Open a media player in the background and
> play whatever you like and Vim won't interfere.

Hi Rob

I do use text editors for editing text (as opposed to coding). Like Ben i'm at
a loss to see what Ommwriter has got to offer that FocusWriter and other
similar writer apps haven't got... there are three others but i can't remember
what they are called. I think i'm right in saying that these writer's apps are
fine but when one submits for publishing they'll be asking for a .txt file.

Leafpad is an excellent graphical editor free of distractions to put down plain
text (when i say excellent i mean it's been well tested and is a basic no
nonsense editor) coping perfectly with wordwrap. gedit and kate will do almost
anything you want apart from word count - both fairly distraction free.

As i've learnt one does occasionally need the sophistication of a more advanced
editor like vim which has the capability to cope with almost anything you ask
of it. As Ben says vim (& gvim) offers complete configurability to one's taste.
Just need to read the manual.... which i'm trying to go through as i get the
time! Stay with vim... after all it is the world's top editor.

james

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