On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Ben Fritz wrote:
On Friday, December 7, 2012 11:57:00 AM UTC-6, robslav wrote:
Hey all,
I really dig the full screen writing and sound features of Omm Writer, and I
was wondering if there was any way to customize vim to do a similar thing.
Would this be possible with a vimscript? I don't know much about scripting
vim, but I would like to learn more, especially if I could get all the great
vim keyboard control in a zen environment.
Believe it or not, not everybody uses Omm Writer and therefore don't know
what the full screen writing is. I'm not sure what you mean and the official
Omm Writer site wasn't too useful in finding out right away.
If you want to remove GUI elements like scrollbars, menus, and buttons from
gvim, see :help 'guioptions'
Maximizing the window to full screen is done by your OS desktop environment.
For sound, Vim doesn't do that. Open a media player in the background and
play whatever you like and Vim won't interfere.
Hi Rob
I do use text editors for editing text (as opposed to coding). Like Ben i'm at
a loss to see what Ommwriter has got to offer that FocusWriter and other
similar writer apps haven't got... there are three others but i can't remember
what they are called. I think i'm right in saying that these writer's apps are
fine but when one submits for publishing they'll be asking for a .txt file.
Leafpad is an excellent graphical editor free of distractions to put down plain
text (when i say excellent i mean it's been well tested and is a basic no
nonsense editor) coping perfectly with wordwrap. gedit and kate will do almost
anything you want apart from word count - both fairly distraction free.
As i've learnt one does occasionally need the sophistication of a more advanced
editor like vim which has the capability to cope with almost anything you ask
of it. As Ben says vim (& gvim) offers complete configurability to one's taste.
Just need to read the manual.... which i'm trying to go through as i get the
time! Stay with vim... after all it is the world's top editor.
james
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