Writing With Vim
Writing With Vim
About the Book
I have been using Vim for writing for a few years now, and would like to share my favorite tips, tricks, and configuration settings in a book for you. In a fantastic feat of dogfooding, I'll be writing the book using Vim, which will clearly be useful and entertaining.
Here are some topics that which might interest you:
- how to set up Vim to enable smooth writing
- the best keyboard shortcuts for editing and navigating prose (not the same as programming keys!)
- how to set up your spellchecker, dictionaries, thesauruses (thesauri?)
- how to automatically correct typos
- great plugins to enhance your writing experience
About the Author
Table of Contents
- 1. Get in touch
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2. Introduction
- Prerequisites / assumptions
- Philosophy of using Vim for writing
- Typeface Conventions
- Vim Conventions
- Learning More
- Dogfooding
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3. Setting Up Vim to Enable Smooth Writing
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Your
.vimrc -
Set
nocompatible - Your Vim writing function
- Reducing distractions and basic configuration
- Fullscreen mode
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Your
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4. Viewing and Writing Files
- No-wrap
- Soft-wrap
- Hard-wrap
- Using maximum screen real-estate
- Simple centered soft-wrap display
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5. Introduction to Plugins
- What are plugins?
- Managing your plugins
- Pathogen setup
- Getting, updating, and removing plugins
- Useful plugins
- Distraction-free writing
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6. Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
- General movement
- Seeing more context
- Folding
- Fast cursor movement
- Words
- Sentences
- Paragraphs
- Indicating visual whitespace
- Highlighting multiple spaces between sentences
- Text objects
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7. Spotting and Fixing Mistakes
- Spell checking
- Getting spelling corrections
- Marking entire classes of words as good
- Automatically correcting mistakes
- Using other languages
- Multiple languages
- vim-lexical
- vim-pencil
- Autocomplete
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8. Editing and Proofreading
- Finding text
- Replacing text
- Complex replacing
- Digraphs
- Helpful remappings
- Counting words
- Checking your grammar
- Finding synonyms
- Online lookup
- vim-lexical (again!)
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9. Writing Documents
- Pandoc
- Markdown
- Syntax highlighting
- Good writing color schemes
- Faster syntax highlighting
- Static site generators
- Screenplays
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10. Your Writing Workflow
- Version control
- Writing linters
- Breaking down a publishing workflow
- 11. Get in touch
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12. Appendices
- Attribution
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