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On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 4:33 AM, Anthony Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/vim_use/Q6o3CV4lkj4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Renato Fabbri GNU/Linux User #479299 labmacambira.sourceforge.net -- -- 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.
