Having recently rather unexpectedly found myself back on this list after
being unable to get on it for several years, I seem to see a difference
in emphasis. Most people who post here appear to be programmers,
whereas previously there were other kinds of users as well. Nothing
wrong with that, of c
Hi Anthony,
Asking such general questions doesn't make sense in practise. (IMHO).
If you want to get a job done and if you want to know whether Vim is a
great tool to get the job done than ask how to setup Vim to assist you.
See :h design-not
Follow Bram's advice: Watch yourself. Try to find ou
On 01 Jan 2010, Marc Weber wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
>
> Asking such general questions doesn't make sense in practise. (IMHO).
>
I must have phrased this badly. I was just wondering what other people's
experience was and if there were others who were using vim for general
writing and editing. More ou
> Searching the web for people's views on writing methods I
> found a number who said that one should use vim for
> programming but emacs for other kinds of writing. So I had a
> look at emacs out of curiosity but couldn't see any real
> advantage for me in learning it. Am I missing something here?
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:50:17AM -0600, Tim Chase scribed:
> > Searching the web for people's views on writing methods I
> > found a number who said that one should use vim for
> > programming but emacs for other kinds of writing. So I had a
> > look at emacs out of curiosity but couldn't see any
Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Having recently rather unexpectedly found myself back on this list after
> being unable to get on it for several years, I seem to see a difference
> in emphasis. Most people who post here appear to be programmers,
> whereas previously there were other kinds of users as w
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:14:56AM EST, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Having recently rather unexpectedly found myself back on this list
> after being unable to get on it for several years,
There have been reports on the list of individuals who had unsbscribed
from v...@vim.org years ago and all of
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:34:02AM EST, Geir Isene wrote:
[..]
> I use vim for almost anything - including writing in forms on the web
> (via the firefox plugin ItsAllText). I write books, esseys, articles
> and all my e-mail in vim (I use Mutt as the mail client). I am almost
> twice as effectiv
2010/1/1 Tim Chase :
>> Searching the web for people's views on writing methods I
>> found a number who said that one should use vim for
>> programming but emacs for other kinds of writing. So I had a
>> look at emacs out of curiosity but couldn't see any real
>> advantage for me in learning it. Am
Hello,
Chris Jones wrote on 01.01.10:
> In days of yore, in every trade, the apprentice would benefit by the
> enlightening guidance of the masters - plenty kicks in the pants, I would
> imagine, but now with computer skills, it's everyone for himself wasting
> their time reinventing and despite
For me, vim has taken over, it's pervasive because it's so useful. So
much so that I get frustrated when I press, say, dd in an app and find it
didn't delete the line. Stupid brain-dead app, I think to myself, when
it's my fault of course.
I use vimperator plugin for Opera browser, which give
NickC wrote:
> For me, vim has taken over, it's pervasive because it's so useful. So
> much so that I get frustrated when I press, say, dd in an app and find it
> didn't delete the line. Stupid brain-dead app, I think to myself, when
> it's my fault of course.
For me, I find myself muttering
Chris Jones wrote:
> Any tips forthcoming - or a nice 3-page tutorial if you could
> spare the time.
>
> I am not kidding, actually.. this is the kind of stuff you
> can't get for love or money.
>
> In days of yore, in every trade, the apprentice would benefit
> by the enlightening guidance of t
Chris Jones wrote:
> Any tips forthcoming - or a nice 3-page tutorial if you could spare the
> time.
>
> I am not kidding, actually.. this is the kind of stuff you can't get
> for love or money.
>
> In days of yore, in every trade, the apprentice would benefit by the
> enlightening guidance of
Thanks to all who replied to this thread. It's good to know that others
use vim much as I do. Some useful suggestions have come up. I already
use (g)vim as my default editor for mutt but I'll look into LatexSuite and
txtfmt.
A principal grouse of people who prefer other editors is that vim is
moda
NickC wrote:
> For me, vim has taken over, it's pervasive because it's so useful. So
> much so that I get frustrated when I press, say, dd in an app and find it
> didn't delete the line. Stupid brain-dead app, I think to myself, when
> it's my fault of course.
I know the feeling. When I used
On Jan 2, 4:39 am, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> A principal grouse of people who prefer other editors is that vim is
> modal. This doesn't actually bother me,
I like Vim in part *because* it is modal. I have trouble in non-modal
editors learning all the keyboard shortcuts partially because it is
u
On 01/01/10 13:14, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Having recently rather unexpectedly found myself back on this list after
being unable to get on it for several years, I seem to see a difference
in emphasis. Most people who post here appear to be programmers,
whereas previously there were other kinds of
On 6 March 2010 23:23, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 01/01/10 13:14, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>>
>> Having recently rather unexpectedly found myself back on this list after
>> being unable to get on it for several years, I seem to see a difference
>> in emphasis. Most people who post here appear to b
I’m not a programmer, and I use vim. But I must admit that writing
« dense » text is sometime hard on vim, and I switch to pyroom (a
darkroom-like for linux).
The thing who helped me is the « linespace » option, which permit to
add space beetween lines and made a huge text more readable.
Other « p
On 07/03/10 20:25, Olivier Guéry wrote:
I’m not a programmer, and I use vim. But I must admit that writing
« dense » text is sometime hard on vim, and I switch to pyroom (a
darkroom-like for linux).
The thing who helped me is the « linespace » option, which permit to
add space beetween lines and
I’m not a programmer, and I use vim. But I must admit that writing
« dense » text is sometime hard on vim, and I switch to pyroom (a
darkroom-like for linux).
The thing who helped me is the « linespace » option, which permit to
add space beetween lines and made a huge text more readable.
Other « p
On Mar 7, 9:37 pm, Tony Mechelynck
wrote:
> On 07/03/10 20:25, Olivier Gu ry wrote:
> > Last, I realy miss a proportionnal font. Whatever one say, a clean
> > proportionnal font, with ligatures, is great for writing. If gvim
> > could use pango or wathever I ll be realy happy ! (I saw that it s
On Mar 7, 9:37 pm, Tony Mechelynck
wrote:
> On 07/03/10 20:25, Olivier Gu ry wrote:
> > Last, I realy miss a proportionnal font. Whatever one say, a clean
> > proportionnal font, with ligatures, is great for writing. If gvim
> > could use pango or wathever I ll be realy happy ! (I saw that it s
On 07/03/10 21:53, Olivier Guéry wrote:
On Mar 7, 9:37 pm, Tony Mechelynck
wrote:
On 07/03/10 20:25, Olivier Gu ry wrote:
Last, I realy miss a proportionnal font. Whatever one say, a clean
proportionnal font, with ligatures, is great for writing. If gvim
could use pango or wathever I ll be re
On Mar 7, 10:45 pm, Tony Mechelynck
wrote:
> On 07/03/10 21:53, Olivier Guéry wrote:
> See also the last item at ":help design-not". If you want a fancy
> WYSIWYG open-source text processor with proportional fonts,
> justification and what-not, don't use Vim, use oowriter.
I’ll shure do this, i
* 2010-03-07 14:05 (-0800), Olivier Guéry wrote:
> [...] if only I could find any editor with this kind of text
> navigation / modification that vim have.
The entire Vim can't be reproduced elsewhere but there might still be
some choices for you.
(1) Emacs has a built-in Vi editor (viper-mode).
2010/3/8 Olivier Guéry :
>
>
> On Mar 7, 10:45 pm, Tony Mechelynck
> wrote:
>> On 07/03/10 21:53, Olivier Guéry wrote:
>> See also the last item at ":help design-not". If you want a fancy
>> WYSIWYG open-source text processor with proportional fonts,
>> justification and what-not, don't use Vim, u
> Kate, the KDE Advanced Text Editor, has a VI mode and supports
> proportional fonts! To get the feature in Koffice, please comment in
> support of this feature request:
>
> VI mode, like Kate has
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219889
>
The same feature request, for Open Office:
http://ww
On Mar 8, 10:14 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote:
with it. Waiting for an editor to be the on of my dreams !
>
> Kate, the KDE Advanced Text Editor, has a VI mode and supports
> proportional fonts! To get the feature in Koffice, please comment in
> support of this feature request:
>
> VI mode, like Kate ha
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 12:23 -0800, Olivier Guéry wrote:
>
> On Mar 8, 10:14 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> with it. Waiting for an editor to be the on of my dreams !
> >
> > Kate, the KDE Advanced Text Editor, has a VI mode and supports
> > proportional fonts! To get the feature in Koffice, please comm
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