On 18 Jun 2018, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > 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). > >> [snip] > 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. >
I distinguish between stuff that needs attention to its appearance and initial drafts (most of my writing). I've self-published at least 7 books of various kinds. I wrote all of these initially in (g)vim and then prepared them for publication using LyX, which I find much better for this than any ordinary word processor. Vim is ideal for cutting, pasting, spell-checking etc and all this is best done separately from the fancy stuff. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.uk -- -- 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.
