Thursday, June 21, 2018

Re: Is it a matter of Unix ABC, B-A-BA', basics, school stuff, RTFM ?

On 18 Jun 2018, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 2:16 PM, <arocker@vex.net> wrote:
> >> Vim is the right tool to write (and sometimes to read as well).
> >>
[snip]
> Even when appearance is important, e.g. HTML+CSS, I still use Vim (or
> gvim), then I watch in a browser how it looks like. In my experience,
> WISYWYG HTML editors add spurious elements here and there, and most of
> them produce bad quality non-W3C-compliant HTML. With Vim I can tune
> the source text however I want.
>
> Of course, this group's old-timers are also long-time Vim users. It
> _is_ possible edit one's text with emacs, Notepad, gedit, and others,
> but of course you won't find help about them here.
>

I distinguish between stuff that needs attention to its appearance and
initial drafts (most of my writing). I've self-published at least 7 books of
various kinds. I wrote all of these initially in (g)vim and then prepared
them for publication using LyX, which I find much better for this than any
ordinary word processor. Vim is ideal for cutting, pasting, spell-checking
etc and all this is best done separately from the fancy stuff.

Anthony


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