On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 2:16 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Vim is the right tool to write (and sometimes to read as well). >> > > If it's a text file, (which almost all unix files are), Vim is the right > tool to produce it. It can be used in read-only mode, if you're afraid of > accidental modifications. An alternative for that job would be "less", > (akak "more"). > > Where appearance is of the essence, e.g.CSS, you might want to use a > WYSIWYG tool, but for pure content, Vim's still good. (Especially if you > set it up to wrap tags, &c. > Even when appearance is important, e.g. HTML+CSS, I still use Vim (or gvim), then I watch in a browser how it looks like. In my experience, WISYWYG HTML editors add spurious elements here and there, and most of them produce bad quality non-W3C-compliant HTML. With Vim I can tune the source text however I want.
Of course, this group's old-timers are also long-time Vim users. It _is_ possible edit one's text with emacs, Notepad, gedit, and others, but of course you won't find help about them here. Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
