[fleshmonad]

Vim is my only text editor, I use it for writing everything. Emails, scripts, messages, 100k+ lines codebases, prose, never needed this plugin. One line for 80 char wrap on certain filetypes, and a that is it, never needed such a plugin.

For prose, you can simply hard wrap at 80 (arguably you should), and vim supports this via a single config line. OOTB vim soft breaks anyway and you can navigate between in those broken lines via gj, gk etc.

Seems like bloat to me.

[criddell]

I'm your opposite. I use Pages for letter writing, Word for documentation, PyCharm for Python, Visual Studio for C++, VSCode for Javascript, Outlook for email, vi for bash and config files, SublimeText for markdown and html, OneNote for todos and project planning, Obsidian for my work log and outlines, the Notes app for on-the-go capture, etc...

[KPGv2]

This is the way.

For a community that prides itself on "one small tool for a specific purpose," people sure like to use VIM for a thousand different purposes by hacking plugins. This used to be derided as the microsoft way decades ago.

For writing prose, I use an app specifically designed for writing prose: Scrivener. See elsewhere saying "you should change how you write in order to use version control when writing prose." Totally forgetting that there's been a version control for prose for literal decades: tracking changes in a word processor.

Do you want to process words? Use a word processor. Not a text editor. Writing prose isn't editing text.

[1vuio0pswjnm7]

Seems like bloat to me, too

I prefer writing with a mechanical pencil

For editing text on a screen, I prefer UNIX utilities ed, sed, ex/vi and custom filters written in C. The later can be used within ed or ex/vi via

   :!filter

The slow, error-prone step is getting the text _accurately_ from the paper to bits in the computer. A personalised OCR that can recognise own handwriting might be helpful

[Roundish7334]

I agree - sometimes it is too easy to get lost when people create plugins for simple configuration options that are already built-in.

[CamT]

I feel similarly, but I could see folks who use vim as more of an IDE finding this useful.

[cryptonector]

Yes, this. Vim needs no plugins for writing prose.