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For those of you that use version control, what do you use to edit your documents? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 months ago by queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/writing@beehaw.org

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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?

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[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] beejjorgensen 1 points 3 months ago

You can set git's difftool to vimdiff. That is admittedly outside of the current editing session, though.