@vamp switched to working exclusively in plain text last year - best decision I ever made

@dathowitzer Exclusively plain text from here on out, though. It's certainly a lot safer.

@vamp and far more capable. With a glut of editors, I find myself across a few to get best of all worlds (Vim being best of the best)

@dathowitzer OMG, I'm a text editor junkie. Always switching to the next shiny thing. Currently a toss-up between Ghostwriter and Typora (I like markdown editors).

@vamp @dathowitzer Recommendations for markdown-focused big-project text editor? Cross-platform, preferably?

@FerdiZ @vamp I can't look past Vim with plugins like Vimwiki. Big learning curve but has changed my life immeasurably

@dathowitzer I haven't quite taken the plunge into that learning curve yet... @FerdiZ

@vamp @FerdiZ I get that, I think my friends are sick of me trying to convert them. And all told, it took me about a year of noodling around here and there with it to think "hey, this could do it all if I go all in". But I can't overstate how impactful it has been on my process, the quality of my work, and honestly my life. Pretty big praise for a text editor that began life more like 4 decades ago.

@dathowitzer LOL I just installed it, opened it, and just went O.O I use nano sometimes ;) My terminal skills are... very basic. @FerdiZ

@vamp @FerdiZ haha mine were too but it can be done. If you're on mac, open up terminal and hit "vimtutor" then enter and you'll be going through an interactive tutorial - baby steps

@dathowitzer Linux. It's open. Wish me luck ;) @FerdiZ

@vamp @FerdiZ ...and all it took was a handful of toots. Who said Mastodon was DOA?

@dathowitzer Holy crap. This is kind of beautiful. I might be hooked. @FerdiZ

@vamp ikr - wait until you start extending it out... Just finished an original pilot that was heavily researched, all kept track of through Vim with Vimwiki - https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki