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Looks nice! And I don't want to always be that Emacs guy, but for anyone interested, you can (of course) have a similar setup, here's some packages: https://gi

• CarelessExpert 6y ago
  And I don't wanna be that Vim guy, but similarly a mix of these plugins works well for me: https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim (distraction free mode) https://github.com/reedes/vim-pencil https://github.com/reedes/vim-pencil (better behaviour for writing prose) https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim (visual highlighting of current paragraph) https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown (better markdown syntax) https://vim-voom.github.io/ https://vim-voom.github.io/ (outliner sidebar) Edit: BTW, for my truly favourite aesthetic experience, I like to pair this setup with a nice dark theme, a high quality font, and cool-retro-term (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/ https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/) emulating an old school CRT. Is this practical or ergonomic? Nope! But I love it!
  • podiki 6y ago
    Haha fair enough! Retro term definitely looks cool. (Of course could then use Evil in Emacs for Vim keys, or just run vim in a terminal inside Emacs...)
    • CarelessExpert 6y ago
      Honestly, I've periodically considered heading back to Emacs-land to see how things have changed. I used to be an Emacs user back in the early 2000s but Emacs pinky hit me something fierce (it's my own fault; I have poor typing style so I never use the right control, and I could never adapt to the control-capslock swap) so I jumped into Vim and never looked back. But I gotta admit, Orgmode, among other things, has me feeling a bit Emacs-curious these days... ;)
      • qbasic_forever 6y ago
        Give Doom emacs or Spacemacs a shot too--it's the power of emacs with an opionated vim style keybinding. They're really slick in my experience.
      • podiki 6y ago
        As another commenter said, there are some nice all-in-one setups or minimal but sane defaults. I haven't used them but hear very good things. And don't forget you always have Evil for Vim bindings in Emacs (I think Spacemacs by default uses it?). I should finally learn the Vim way. At the very least so when I forget to set EDITOR for root and edit some config, I'm not totally useless. That'll teach me for not opening it up (with sudo via how Emacs handles things like ssh) in my favorite editor. And org-mode is great, I've been doing more and more in Emacs and org these days (email, notes, todo, writing, coding).
      • opan 6y ago
        Have you thought about trying a different keyboard? I use a Pinky4 and have ctrl (and alt and super) on a thumb key. It both moves these keys from your weakest finger to your strongest, and keeps your pinky free so you can maintain homerow even for something like C-a. Alternatively, you may be able to hit some of the modifiers with the side of your hand instead of your pinky. That's what I did with my previous keyboard (Pok3r). It also made it easy to hit ctrl and super at the same time for some of my window manager keybinds that use both keys.
        • CarelessExpert 6y ago
          If I was going down that path, the ctrl-capslock swap is the first thing I'd try, along with training myself to use the right control key. But all of this requires changing my typing style, and I've been typing the same way for, like, 25 years. Put it this way: I chose to learn Vim instead of change how I type because that was easier. ;)
  • jyrkesh 6y ago
    It might be blasphemous, but I'd actually love a pretty, distraction-free Markdown editor like this that supports Vim keybindings, but isn't Vim. Am I just being lazy in learning the Vim plugin system? Are there pretty Vim frontends now that render all nicely like Ghostwriter et al?
    • qbasic_forever 6y ago
      Most dedicated markdown editors all end up using the same JS code editor components like Ace, CodeMirror or Monaco, and those editors have great vim keybindings usually as extensions or options. See if the tool you're using lets you flip those vim bindings on. For some editors they expose it as an option and for others you have to hack around with the source (for example enabling it with stackedit, a PWA markdown editor like ghostwriter, is possible with some hacking: https://github.com/benweet/stackedit/issues/254 https://github.com/benweet/stackedit/issues/254 ).
    • CarelessExpert 6y ago
      Well, without knowing what your definition of a "pretty" frontend is, it's a bit tough to reply. Go check out the screenshots for Goyo and Limelight and ask yourself if it's pretty enough for you. Personally, I think Vim can look as good as any modern editor with a couple plugins and a decent theme and font, but we might not have the same standards. :)
      • jyrkesh 6y ago
        Thanks so much for the response! Unfortunately, I'm probably less concerned about the prettiness about more about the ease of install and (maybe) mouse support to fallback to when I'm feeling lazy. I'm looking to avoid learning Vim plugins (again...again), setting up an environment, and learning keybindings for sidebars, filenav, etc...
        • CarelessExpert 6y ago
          So what about something like SpaceVim ? https://spacevim.org/ https://spacevim.org/
• elwell 6y ago
  I've enjoyed using this simple Emacs package: https://github.com/shime/emacs-livedown https://github.com/shime/emacs-livedown
• beshrkayali 6y ago
  Olivetti is fantastic, I mostly edit and write text in that mode, even longish emails.