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Author of the article here! For me, I prefer it for two reasons: 1. Distractionless editing - not fiddling with formatting or things like that is quite nice. E
by thecedarprince 6y ago
Author of the article here! For me, I prefer it for two reasons:
1. Distractionless editing - not fiddling with formatting or things like that is quite nice. Especially since I work with markdown and LaTeX, it is easy to convert over to a word file once I get the draft of the version done thanks to pandoc. From there, then I can really worry about the formatting - if I need to as pandoc is great!
2. I like the speed and lightness of a text editor for writing. Don't have to wait for boot, can easily grep and replace, and jump to where I need to go.
- tomcat27 6y agoDid you consider writing in Sublime text?
- thecedarprince 6y agoI actually wrote my entire thesis in VSCode with LaTeX workshop! I have friends who swear by Sublime - I can see why! It's really powerful. Traditional GUI editors are great for when I was working on my thesis but I opted for a lighter solution as I do a lot on my laptop at once. The fewer CPU intensive programs for my workflow, the better.
- ephimetheus 6y agoI’m doing the same right now. It’s pretty good.