I recently (finally) moved a bunch of my poems and short stories and other writings off of Google Docs and into a git repo of text files. Right now I’m editing them with VSCode or Zed, which I just found and like so far. Both are fine but not really geared toward writing not-code. What have y’all found that you like writing in?
Honestly, I write virtually everything as markdown in Vim. The only time I get out of that is when I have very specific formatting requirements and I don’t feel like messing with LaTeX or I need to submit a Word document.
Plain text is superior due to lack of dependencies. 😁
I have yet to ascend to the plane of full-time CLI editor use, at least for writing natural language I’m still hooked on the GUI for two reasons: one, I’m still faster at using the mouse to seek to where I want to start an edit, and two, I like visually diffing the current section of whatever I’m editing with previous versions. The former I know I could be faster if I practiced at it because I’ve seen people blaze through edits in vim, the latter I’m not sure how I would accomplish in vim.
You can set git’s difftool to vimdiff. That is admittedly outside of the current editing session, though.