On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Ben Fritz wrote: > 1. Text objects. Things like "cap" (change a paragraph) and > "dis" (delete a sentence) would be amazing for writing prose. There > are also text objects for text inside quotes, text inside parentheses, > and more. See :help text-objects within Vim. These text objects work > with any of the Vim operators like 'd' delete, 'y' yank/copy, 'c' > change, and also in visual mode. > > 2. The Vim Tips wiki. While mostly geared toward programmers, there's > also a lot of stuff to learn. See > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Getting_started > for our "new user" tips. > > 3. If you're just writing prose, the txtfmt plugin may be useful. It > gives you the ability to apply styles like underline, background/ > foreground color, italics, and bold to arbitrary text. You can get it > from http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2208. It will be > especially useful if you combine it with the :TOhtml command that > comes with Vim. See :help :TOhtml. Using this command you can colorize > you text and then export it to HTML so you can view/print it in a web > browser.
Thanks, Ben -- on all counts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
