Hi Eric, Firstly, I do use vim for programming (mainly php and sql), but, I also use it as a text editor for typing and writing out stuff. For example, I use it to keep minutes of meetings I attend while I am listening....the commands allow me to skip around the page so much faster than if I was using word or another non-vim text editor.
Also, I am a user of viemu, which emulates vim in Word and outlook....it is a very good program (I have no financial interest in the product, but am a user) I strongly recommend you have a look at www.viemu.com Basically, the more you use vim, the faster you become....personally, I try to use it whenever I can...I even use the vimperator plugin for firefox...I am so used to the key movements that I hate using the mouse now, it seems slow and foreign to me, almost frustrating. Hope this helps Regards Paul On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > I've downloaded and installed a copy of MacVim. I've peeked at a few of the > help topics. [I'd like to run the tutorial, but haven't figured out how to > do that, yet.] I'm not a programmer. Far from it. I'm intrigued for a least > a couple reasons, the main one being the fact that Vim is command-driven, > that everything's done from the keyboard. [My very first experience with an > "editor" was with Wordstar on CPM, and I've missed doing everything from the > keyboard ever since.] The outliner plugins appeal to me as well. [I was a > long-time devote of MaxThink, running it in a DOS Window after moving to > Windows from DOS, and in DOSBox under Linux and now on a Mac.] And so does > the possibility of using it as a file manager as well as editor. > > Still, as I imagine many are, I'm a bit intimidated complexity of the > commands and the steep learning curve. So, I'm wondering if there are any > ordinary, nonprogrammer writers here who've gotten comfortable with Vim as a > writer's editor -- or is that just ridiculous to think of? > > Thanks, > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.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 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
