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Written by Randall Wood
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Saturday, 18 July 2009 |
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 If you use Vim for coding, you might find it equally useful for writing text and longer works. If you don't use Vim and appreciate fast, efficient writing and editing, you might want to give it a try.
In either case, I highly recommend the Vim text editor for authors, writers, and anybody working on long text and prose works. And I've put together the 13 page Woodnotes Guide to Vim for Writers to set you on your way.
This is in the tradition of my Woodnotes Guide to Emacs for Writers, Woodnotes Guide to using Jedit to Code Manuscripts for Avalon Travel Publishing, and article Editing Avalon Docs in Vim.
Find the Woodnotes Guide to Vim for Writers here: (PDF(128KB)|HTML).
This document is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 licence.. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 18 July 2009 )
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Written by Randall Wood
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Monday, 08 December 2008 |
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 Emacs is powerful but complicated. The more you are able to reference its keyboard shortcuts the faster you can work - I find this its greatest strength.
If you have already read my article on Emacs for Writers in which I describe how authors can make best use of this powerful software, you may also appreciate this Reference Card (cheat sheet). It provides all the most useful commands in both long and short form, on three concise pages (PDF).
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Last Updated ( Monday, 08 December 2008 )
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Written by Randall Wood
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Tuesday, 26 July 2005 |
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 I am a big fan of the Mutt email client on Linux/BSD and Mac OS X. It's a pleasure to use, but can be a devil to configure. So I wrote a 40 page Woodnotes manual by the name of "Using the Mutt Email Client" detailing how to configure and run Mutt as your email client. And amazingly, as of March 2010 well over 30,000 people have downloaded it.
If mutt has ever tempted you, this might help you figure it out. If Mutt has never tempted you, perhaps I can give you a sense why it's the single most useful piece of software I use on a daily basis.
Last revision: 2 December 2009. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 March 2010 )
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Written by Randall Wood
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Tuesday, 01 February 2005 |
 I'm happy to announce I just completed the Woodnotes Guide to Emacs for Writers, available at this website. Emacs is a complicated but extremely powerful text editor with a number of valuable tools for folks that make their living off the written word. Last updated: 4 July 2007.
This document is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 licence.. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 08 December 2008 )
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Written by Randall Wood
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Tuesday, 15 June 2004 |
 I use Jedit regularly, and relied on it exclusively while writing Moon Handbooks Nicaragua and Moon Living Abroad Nicaragua. If you write books for Avalon Travel Publishing, let me show you an easy way to deal with the codes that make these manuscripts so cumbersome. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 24 September 2006 )
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