Distraction Free Writing with Vim

http://laktek.com/2012/09/05/distraction-free-writing-with-vim

by laktek • 14 years ago

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keithpeter• 14 years ago

Nice idea. I'm tending to use Vim with a vertically split screen, notes on the right and the draft to be edited on the left. To bash in the first draft, I tend to use PyRoom (Ubuntu Linux).

styluss• 14 years ago

The title should be "Distraction Free Writing with MacVim"

C0d3r3• 14 years ago

Exactly, I'm trying to convert it to linux, I'll update once I finish struggling to get the columns right ( getting that colunm feel ).

carlesfe2• 14 years ago

Please do. I'm fighting with the columns too, can't get it right

Isofarro• 14 years ago

Have a look at Mike West's http://projects.mikewest.org/vimroom/

mhd• 14 years ago

For the fullscreen part, the rest is pretty universal (theme, settings). Granted, gvim in Windows makes it a bit hard to get proper fullscreen, but there are workarounds[1]. If you're running it in a shell, most of them should have fullscreen options if the window manager/OS doesn't offer that anyway. And well, setting lines/columns might resize the window again...

But alas, the very meekest cannot be at peace, if his ill neighbour will not let him rest.

1: http://peterodding.com/code/vim/shell

Off• 14 years ago

Another interesting solution: http://paulrouget.com/e/vimdarkroom/

DiabloD3• 14 years ago

I don't get the point of centering it. Why not just open a second VIM window to use the space up?

carlesfe2• 14 years ago

It's meant to reduce distractions, and focus only on a single text column :)

Keyframe• 14 years ago

I am a darkroom fanatic, ever since VT320, can't work otherwise. Emacs darkroom mode on Windows was a PITA to setup correctly. Since I switched to Sublime I'm almost fully satisfied. I'm glad to see vim gets darkroom love too, but this apparently works on OSX only.

Distraction Free Writing with Vim

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