[xubuntu-users] Vim in Xubuntu

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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:49 PM, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > [using xubuntu 10.04... hopefully before the end of this month 12.04!]
> >
> > I'm just starting to use Vim but i want to set it up for editing text
> > WORDS not programming text.
> >
> > But first things first; should i use Vim, Vim-gnome, Vim-GTK - with
> > xubuntu i'd have thought vim-gtk. Looking at the dependencies it
> > didn't seem to make a lot of difference as far as i could see. As i
> > like minimal approach maybe i'd be better off using NVI,Vile or Elvis?
> >
> > What i want to achieve is to have a console editor that softwraps text
> > as well as the likes of gedit or leafpad. The two commands i gather
> > are the following
> >
> > :set textwidth=80
> > :set formatoptions=t [stands for options characters]
> >
> > From what i can work out this command only worked for a file i'm
> > typing not one i've originally typed in gedit and then open in Vim. I
> > think there are some technicalities with .txt files which i'm not
> > familiar with and would be grateful if someone could put me right.
> > Perhaps i'd just be better to stay with gedit and use from the CLI
> > when there.
> >
> > thanks
> > james
>
> Vim is a text editor, not a word processor.  You can sort of make it
> work, but it will never be as good as a word processor if you want it
> to be flexible about line breaks as you edit lines, be aware of
> paragraphs and so on.
>
> I have used vi and clones like vim since 1984, but only for writing
> code, code documentation, and short notes.
>
> For readable text, especially with proportional fonts, I use the
> editors built into browsers for email, and libre- open- or star-
> office for documents.
>
> Maybe others have other ideas.
>
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another idea is to write latex code with vim (and use xelatex to compile it
to pdf)
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