alt Hacker NewsVim is my only text editor, I use it for writing everything. Emails, scripts, messages, 100k+ lines codebases, prose, never needed this plugin. One line for 80 char wrap on certain filetypes, and a that is it, never needed such a plugin.
For prose, you can simply hard wrap at 80 (arguably you should), and vim supports this via a single config line. OOTB vim soft breaks anyway and you can navigate between in those broken lines via gj, gk etc.
Seems like bloat to me.
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Seems like bloat to me, too
I prefer writing with a mechanical pencil
For editing text on a screen, I prefer UNIX utilities ed, sed, ex/vi and custom filters written in C. The later can be used within ed or ex/vi via
:!filter
I agree - sometimes it is too easy to get lost when people create plugins for simple configuration options that are already built-in.
Yes, this. Vim needs no plugins for writing prose.
I feel similarly, but I could see folks who use vim as more of an IDE finding this useful.
I'm your opposite. I use Pages for letter writing, Word for documentation, PyCharm for Python, Visual Studio for C++, VSCode for Javascript, Outlook for email, vi for bash and config files, SublimeText for markdown and html, OneNote for todos and project planning, Obsidian for my work log and outlines, the Notes app for on-the-go capture, etc...