On Apr 7, 2011, at 11:20 PM, Scott Bicknell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 04:15:37PM -0400, 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? > > Not at all. I don't program other than writing occasional shell > scripts. Most of my use of Vim is for writing prose. Using > anything else for composition and editing is unthinkable. > Whenever I try to use a word processor or other editor for > writing, the document ends up with unwanted auto-formatting and > tell-tail Vim commands in the text.
Thanks, Scott. Glad to hear that there are in fact others using Vim as I'm contemplating using it. > Go through the vimtutor included with the program, but also read > the user manual (:h usr_toc). It is based on the book "Vi >> > IMproved--Vim", which is an in-depth tutorial. The user manual is > truly excellent. Will do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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
