Here's another Vim tip, which I'm surprised it took me so long to find out. To make Vim "soft wrap" text, like Microsoft Word does, use ":set wrap linebreak textwidth=0".
I decided to give Ubuntu 20.04 a try on my 2015 15" MacBook Pro. I didn't actually install it; I just live booted from a USB thumb drive which was enough to try out everything I wanted. In summary, it's not perfect, and issues with my camera would prevent me from switching, but given the right hardware, I think it's a really viable option. The first thing I wanted to try was what would happen if I plugged in a non-HiDPI screen given that my laptop has a HiDPI screen. Without sub-pixel scaling, whatever scale rate I picked for one screen would apply to the other. However, once I turned on sub-pixel scaling, I was able to pick different scale rates for the internal and external displays. That looked ok. I tried plugging in and unplugging multiple times, and it didn't crash. I doubt it'd work with my Thunderbolt display at work, but it worked fine for my HDMI displays at home. I even plugged it into my TV, and it stuck to the 100% scaling I picked for the othe
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That's awesome!
Finally! I can now use vim for prose as well as code. Cheers!
The only thing I wish is that it would treat soft wrapped text the way Emacs and Microsoft Word do. I.e., if you press up (i.e. k), it should go up a line on the screen, whether or not there was a \n involved. Oh well. I wonder if there's a setting for that too.
@Shannon -jj Behrens:
:map j gj
:map k gk
:map [Up] gk
:map [Down] gj
Just use '<' '>' instead of '[' and ']'