On 06.07.14 01:33, Russell Coker wrote:
But I'd like to find something suitable for editing longer documents, blog posts and magazine articles. ...
(maybe a folding editor) and spelling checking.
A folding editor is a gift from the gods - never to be relinquished once acquired, I've finally realised. My 360 pages of survival notes, needed to compensate for having passed 60, now show up (in Vim) as: UNIX USER ENVIRONMENT & TOOLS 58 P TEXT TOOLS & PRINTING 48 P LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION 138 P PROGRAMMING & EMBEDDED TOOLS 113 P LinuxCNC: EMC2: CNC: 1 P ATTIC: ~/misc/unix/Obsolete_Help The improved overview has allowed me to merge stuff which became dispersed over time, simply due to lack of same. The configurability of the folding is brilliant. (I use two different fold methods, automatically selected on different files, and have added custom page/line counts to one of them. One folds on markers, one on blank lines. Semi-automated marker insertion is a delight.) Picking up and moving a closed fold as if it were a single line, is awfully convenient. There was an issue with an adjacent fold opening when inserting text, but a couple of lines in .vimrc fixed that. Enabling spell checking in Vim is pretty easy, and I have Danish and English spell checking turning on via ^D and ^E respectively. From Vim 7.3 there's a built-in spellchecker, you don't need the plugin anymore. Another great advantage is: No Mouse! (Saves on cheese.) The gf command makes a path serve as a link, and the "netrw" facility allows that to work across networks. (But I don't go that far.)
I can survive without grammar suggestions etc but I'd probably use them if they were available.
The first google hit on "vim grammar check" describes multilingual grammar checking plugins. It could be fun to try.
If there is no good option for editing on Android/web then what's the best Linux GUI option that supports easy conversion to/from plain text? LibreOffice writer?
For decades I've done all my input in plan text, then half a dozen times a year I've imported it into LibreOffice, and fontified it for management consumption. (Managers cannot read courier font, I discovered. It's a form of occupational blindness, probably contracted through inhabiting small offices. A bit of bold, and some underlining seems to gratify them too.) Erik -- ... and to avoid the tedious repetition of these woordes 'is equal to' I will sett, as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of parralelles or twin lines of one length, thus = bicause no 2 things can be moare equal. - Robert Recorde, writing in 1557 (quoted by Tubal Cain, in ME No. 4042)