On 11/08/2010 04:56 PM, Tao Joannes wrote:
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Christian Brabandt <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Sun, November 7, 2010 7:22 am, Tao Joannes wrote: > Yo! > > I'm using vim to write a novel, and lots of other short stories, etc. > > One problem I always have is that I find it difficult to resist the > temptation to go back and edit while I'm doing the initial draft. > > I've got a script that handles file management, wordcount, backups, etc, > that's working pretty well, and I'd like to work in a "drafting" mode that > will make VIM work like a typewriter. > > What I mean is that the navigation is gone, except for switching between > insert and command mode. All I want is type, space, enter, and escape, > basically, having it go automatically to the end of the file when opening > would be nice, too. > > I know I could do it with a 'cat' command that captures standard in and > appends it to whatever file I'm editing, but that would get kludgy on the > scripting, so I'd much rather just have an alternate vimrc that made it > behave as specified. I'd have a toggle setting for "draft" or "revision" > mode, then would select the files by number using a case/select. > > I've forgotten more about vi commands, etc, than I can remember now, so > any > help to get this working would be greatly appreciated. As a really simple way, would evim help you? regards, Christian Thanks for the input, haven't had time to test them all out. Let me be clear though, I'm not having trouble using vim, lol, I used to teach a class on the subject. I'm just trying to figure out a way to limit functionality in a specific way that would prevent me from going back and changing what I've written, as a piece of paper in a typewriter would function. The idea would be to force a forward, forward, always forward sort of flow to my writing and keep me from second-guessing myself during drafting. evim and notepad just aren't what I'm looking for, they would take away all the good parts of vim without eliminating the basic problem, the ability to go back and change things. They've got all kinds of neat writing software for other OS's, I'm just trying to mimic some of their functionality with a script-based VI frontend. But it looks like cat is gonna be the way to go.
Why not remap the bs, left, up, esc keys to <Nop> ? There's ways to get around that but I think it should be good enough for your purposes. Cool question, though. By the way, you might even want to do something a bit more complicated, like a script that allows you backspace up to 5 chars or so but then you have to type 10+ chars until you're allowed to backspace again, so that at least you can fix typos. -ak -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
