goyo.vim VS true-zen.nvim

I wrote a manuscript in vim a couple Novembers ago, for NaNoWrimo. I used a couple plugins, primarily Goyo [1] to add some margins, but otherwise, yeah, plain vim.

I don't think it was really any more productive than my current workflow in Obsidian. Vim keybindings are more useful for editing than for writing (and for editing code in particular, where the changes you're making are much more structured). Also, while the extra features afforded by Obsidian don't really make a difference during the writing process, I find they're really useful for outlines and other preliminary work, which is something of a point against a vim-only workflow unless you want to use vimwiki [2] or something.

Granted, Obsidian is still a markdown-based tool, so there's still some level of minimalism going on there, but by that point we're really discussing markup vs word processors, which is its own conversation—and to my mind, a much more important one. I much prefer working in markup than in a rich text editor, because plain text is easy to edit and process through the terminal, and because it lets me separate style choices from content.

I find that the markdown live preview that editors like Obsidian and Typora provide (and which vim doesn't) is a really nice compromise between a slick composing experience and the technical affordances of markup. Between that and Obsidian's hypertext features, I think I'll stick with Obsidian for the foreseeable future.

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim

[2]: https://vimwiki.github.io/

Maybe https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim could be useful then.

Goyo is a distraction free plugin for vim/NeoVim. https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim. Typically used for people wanting to write inside of NeoVim. There isn’t a real purpose for me to use it other than I like the aesthetic looks. Thanks for replying!

Maybe not of use, but what about just one of your editors + the terminal? Using vim with the goyo extension similarly without the overlay. I write my notes with markdown.

I haven't maintained a Vim config in a few years now (more of an Emacs man now), but I do remember using Goyo in college. Looking back at it, I think it might scratch your itch as far as Vim plugins go, it even allows you to resize the area on the fly.

https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim

I went from https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim to https://github.com/folke/zen-mode.nvim and now this

Can't see https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim mentioned anywhere in this thread.

This feels real similar in concept to limelight and goyo. Nice! 👍🏻

Duplicated idea, while it is true that your plugin does center buffer without hiding tabline or statusline, I can do the same in true-zen with 2 lines of configuration). In this case what I would want to strike for is making a very simple script.

Check TrueZen from Pocco: https://github.com/Pocco81/true-zen.nvim

Heya! Meet true-zen.nvim, a plugin that de-clutters NeoVim's UI to enhance your coding experience.

Have you considered using neovim with the [TrueZen plugin](https://github.com/Pocco81/TrueZen.nvim)? I threw that into NVChad and it turned into a very nice writing experience for me. YMMV.

At first I thougt, that this is due to the colorscheme I use (github-nvim-theme). There is the issue, that when I want to disable Ataraxis-mode, it throws an error and basically the whole Neovim-session is screwed (disabled ui-elements not being reenabled).

TrueZen.nvim - seems to be a bit bloated and overkill for what it aims to be, a bunch of different modes and dozens of configurations options

My second question is a bit more... complicated? I use TrueZen and honestly love it it works perfectly and the developer is awesome and always up for adding some neat things like including the ability to set quit to either quit or toggle, but I ran into one issue I can't seem to resolve with it. This may be a bit complicated so if I describe this incorrectly please let me know. TrueZen has built-in methods for toggle supported statuslines like lualine, but does not always toggle non-supported statuslines. I made a pull request about this, but as I got distracted and busy with uni I accidentally abandoned it (I apologies I know people doing that can be annoying). The pull request however did have some helpful information though, it seems what I need to do is create a custom function that toggles my statusline... but I don't know how. If you review the request here you can see a better more detailed explanation. From what I can tell, as someone who doesn't fully understand vim or lua, I need to create a function call, say togglel_my_statusline, and then call that function in true_zen.after_mode_ataraxis_on = function (). So I did some document reading figured out I could simply do opt.laststatus = 0 and as I simply set opt.statusline this should disable the statusline. I then simply created this

Hello! just wanted to take a minute or two from your time to let you know that TrueZen.nvim has changed quite a bit. I first wrote this plugin after being a few weeks into Nvim with lua knowledge that hadn't been used for around 4 months. As you'd expect, code quality was kind of bad.