Justin SearlsSep 7, 2024

How do people write prose in code editors, with vim movements, and insist on softwrap? Drives me up a fucking wall not being able to navigate up and down reliably with j and k. #TeamHardWrap80cs

🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2024-09-07-07h20m05s/

Justin Searls @searls

How do people write prose in code editors, with vim movements, and insist on softwrap? Drives me up a fucking wall not being able to navigate up and down reliably with j and k. #TeamHardWrap80cs

justin․searls․co
Show threadjasonkarnsSep 7, 2024
@searls couldn’t tell you. I’m also #teamhardwrap
Show threadNeal Lindsay

@jasonkarns @searls When I'm in Vim I write my prose in Markdown with one sentence per line. Soft wrap is on, but almost never causes a wrap. This keeps me more aware of sentence length.

Git commits get hard wrapped though.

Sep 7, 2024 at 2:19pmWeb
Show threadjasonkarnsSep 7, 2024
@neall @searls same! Though sometimes I waffle between hard wrapping sentences (and phrases) vs just letting gqq autowrap everything. Depends on a lot of other factors (# of >1 sentence paragraphs, if I’m the primary editor, I’d it’s OSS or not, etc)