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OK, so I've been playing with WG some more. The impression I'm getting is that if you know vim well, then there probably isn't much of a benefit to using WG... unless maybe you find that the editing features of vim are distracting and you end up wasting time with them.
But if you **don't** know vim, then WG is going to be way easier and more intuitive for you to learn. So if you just want to simply crank out some text and not worry about fancy editing, or syntax highlighting or something like that, then WordGrinder is a great choice.
OK, so if you want to blot out distractions, it's a great idea to go full screen, but that can mean that your lines get too wide. That can feel akward.
Luckily, there's an option to change this in WG.
Hit *Esc* to get the pop-up and go to *File > Global Settings > Look and Feel*.
Set *Enable widescreen mode* to *YES* and the *Maximum allowed length* to 80 or something.
I found the name of this setting to be counter-intuitive. "Wide Screen" sounds like it should be wide, right? Well it's not. Widescreen mode is the mode where you make things **not** wide... because your screen is wide. It's one of those naming choices where the user could interpret it either way, but the developer think's it's totally clearly only one of those ways. It happens. 🤷
OK, so be defualt the *Use dense paragraph layout* setting is set to *NO*.
This is a setting that caused some problems when I saved a previous post as *plain text*. While it looked like there were two lines between paragraphs, there was really only one line-break. So I had to re-edit the file with vim to enter extra line breaks.
Apparently *dense paragraph layout* is the normal layout where you see the line break as just a normal line break... like in vim. So set that to *YES* and then you'll be able to see when there's one line break or two.
Note: If you export as Markdown, that might insert the extra line-breaks too. Maybe I'll test that out.
So it looks like WordGrinder offers kind of a simplified version of vim, but with some limited formatting that looks like formatting rather than looking like *Markdown* code. It's great if you don't know how to use vim, or find vim's features distracting. And if for some reason, you really want headings to show up as larger, bolder text instead of something like "# Heading".
Oh, and the *widescreen* setting is nice for when you want to go full-screen, but you don't want your lines to actually stretch the full width of your wide, modern, lcd monitor. There's probably a plugin for vim that does something like that.
I find that I'm always typing 'o' to start a new line or 'j' and 'k' to go up or down even when I'm not in vim. So I'll probably stick with vim.
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