Hi, On Thursday, April 7, 2011 10:15:37 PM UTC+2, 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?
I think it's a matter of how much of your work you will be doing with vim. Learning the vi(m) style to work with plain text pays off if you do most of your text editing tasks in vim. If you still use word processors and other text editors a lot, I personally wouldn't consider vim a good choice. There is also the question how you get text edited with vim into some format you can submit. vim isn't particularly good at editing text with no hard line breaks (tw=0), i.e. "soft wrap". In order to get some text formatting into e.g. Word, most likely requires the use of some command line tool that converts the text to something Word can read. I'm not sure such tools are easy to use for somebody who has never written a single line of code. Regards, Tom -- 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
