Writing

I write a lot of Markdown, and my usual workflow is to write in Vim and then use a tool to generate the corresponding HTML. Livedown by Hrvoje Šimić generates a live preview by using a small Node program to watch for file changes. It updates the preview document with WebSockets, so there’s no slow page refresh…

Wynn Netherland amended his vimrc to highlight words to avoid in tech writing. The snippet looks like this:

" Highlight words to avoid in tech writing
" =======================================
"
" obviously, basically, simply, of…

I was reading Zen room for Vim: Focusing only on the essential, a post about a fork of VimRoom. There’s been a glut of these distraction-free-writing plugins recently, but I like looking at their source because they all struggle to solve one simple problem: how to…

LiteDFM (GitHub: bilalq / lite-dfm, License: MIT) by Bilal Quadri is a plugin for quickly removing distractions from Vim. It hides things like line numbers and the status bar.

November is National Novel Writing Month! On the NaNoWriMo forum, NewMexicoKid started a thread about using Vim for writing:

Starting a new thread on Vim because just today I discovered some power plugins and tools that I hadn’t been aware of before; and that makes me…

I think apps like iA Writer are cool — the idea is to remove all unnecessary GUI chrome to allow the author to focus on the content:

As soon as you type the title bar disappears and all you see is the clean typing sheet, distraction-free, ready for your ideas to…

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Write.vim

Although Vim is naturally optimised for writing software, I actually use it as a general purpose editor for all kinds of…