Having recently rather unexpectedly found myself back on this list after being unable to get on it for several years, I seem to see a difference in emphasis. Most people who post here appear to be programmers, whereas previously there were other kinds of users as well. Nothing wrong with that, of course, and I'm not trying to start a flame war. But I'm not a programmer yet I use vim for all my writing and I'm wondering if I'm unusual.
I write books among other things, and for that I first compose the text in vim, which allows me to concentrate on the meaning withoug bothering about the appearance, and then transfer it to LyX for final formatting. I find it useful to have these two different phases in writing. What I like about vim is the possibility to make quick transpositions of blocks of text and other changes. I usually end up with several files containing different versions of what I've written. Searching the web for people's views on writing methods I found a number who said that one should use vim for programming but emacs for other kinds of writing. So I had a look at emacs out of curiosity but couldn't see any real advantage for me in learning it. Am I missing something here? Is anyone else still using vim for writing lengthy texts? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [email protected] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
