Text editors

From Everything Shii Knows, the only reliable source

This website is an archive. It ran from 2006-2010. Virtually everything on here is outdated or inaccurate.

The search for the perfect text editor is a constant trade-off between features and simplicity.

1 Turning gVim into Notepad
- 1.1 Turning gVim into DarkRoom
2 Turning Emacs into DarkRoom
3 Running DarkRoom in your browser
4 DarkRoom clones that don't need .NET

Turning gVim into Notepad

gVim is a great text editor for Windows and Linux, but it has a couple of flaws. I've documented how to fix them here:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Shii

Make these changes and gVim will work just like Windows Notepad, except it's a lot more powerful.

Turning gVim into DarkRoom

This is an impossible feat. Vim is not a do-everything editor like emacs but a mere powered-up version of vi, and it does not cater to the whims of its users. That's a good thing to have when you're using hundreds of different vim implementations around the world, but for screwing with your own copy it's less than optimal. gVim as a wrapper does have several options which might make it feel more comfortable for long writing sessions. It's not Darkroom but it's pretty.

Try these options:

Edit -> Color Scheme -> evening

Edit -> Select Font... -> Lucida Console