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"It handles large documents efficiently" - and plain text doesn't? That's just an insanely bad reason to use word. Vim can open, edit and "handle" very large do
by hnriot 13y ago
"It handles large documents efficiently" - and plain text doesn't? That's just an insanely bad reason to use word. Vim can open, edit and "handle" very large documents with ease. A typical novel - even one by Thomas Pynchon is trivially small for plain txt. At roughly 300k words for a long novel, 400k if you're Tolstoy, that's tiny.
Spell check maybe is a reason, no writer wants to admit they can't spell "Hemingway", maybe word/page count abilities, but large documents isn't a reason to forgo the benefits of plain text.
- npizzolato 13y agoMost of the world doesn't want to deal with Vim's normal vs insert modes. Nor do they want to engage in a philosophical battle about proprietary formats vs plain text. Most people just want to get stuff done, and in this case, send their work to other writers in a recognizable form that they can easily read, edit, make comments on, etc. Word and other programs offer that to them. Plain text and Vim do not.