I’ve been enjoying writing in vim a lot more.

There is now great support for writing code, especially Go. To get started with programming in Vim in Go, clone the latest vim-go:

$ git clone https://github.com/fatih/vim-go.git ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/vim-go

Then run Vim and use the command :GoInstallBinaries which will install the necessary programs.

There is a nice and simple way to make writing a lot easier (word-wrapping, nice color scheme), add the a WordProcessorMode.

You can just make the following config file (save as ~/.vimrc):

filetype plugin indent on
let g:go_fmt_command = "goimports"
func! WordProcessorMode()
  set columns=80
  setlocal formatoptions=1
  setlocal noexpandtab
  map j gj
  map k gk
  setlocal spell spelllang=en_us
  set complete+=s
  set formatprg=par
  setlocal wrap
  setlocal linebreak
  set foldcolumn=3
  highlight Normal ctermfg=black ctermbg=grey
  hi NonText ctermfg=grey guifg=grey
endfu
com! WP call WordProcessorMode()

Then, while in vim you can activate the word processing mode by typing :WP.