limelight.vim

I've used vim as a prose editor in addition to a code editor for a long time. For me, Goyo was the plugin that always matched what I wanted vim to become when I was in "prose writing mode." https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim I combine with limelight.vim: https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim This partially simulates the experience/UX of the product iA Writer on macOS or iPad, which is my favorite prose editor, but is proprietary software and doesn't work on Linux. As others mentioned, when in prose writing mode you can also flip on a handful of vim options, I save these as hotkeys in my vimrc. For example, spell checking and line wrapping. In case you're curious: https://github.com/amontalenti/home/blob/master/.vimrc

Two years ago, I did nanowrimo in Vim with a whole suite of plugins: - https://github.com/preservim/vim-pencil - https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim.git - https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim.git - https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki It was fun, and the setup is almost identical to iA Writer which I appreciate. I even had it all on my phone with Termux! Last year I just did it in Markdown in VSCode in "zen mode" which also worked pretty well. It was definitely easier to setup than Vim and had better highlighting of bold/italics/etc.

And I don't wanna be that Vim guy, but similarly a mix of these plugins works well for me: https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim (distraction free mode) https://github.com/reedes/vim-pencil (better behaviour for writing prose) https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim (visual highlighting of current paragraph) https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown (better markdown syntax) https://vim-voom.github.io/ (outliner sidebar) Edit: BTW, for my truly favourite aesthetic experience, I like to pair this setup with a nice dark theme, a high quality font, and cool-retro-term (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/) emulating an old school CRT. Is this practical or ergonomic? Nope! But I love it!