My Neovim Writer

Writing in the Terminal

I like to write with VIM and enjoy it quite a bit. Its nice to be able to just type things out in terminal and the VIM bindings are amazing for me. It makes the process of interacting with it all pretty fun. So much that it got me interested in Static Website Generator. That is where you set up the configuration and then write everything else in a friendly format like text or Markdown, then run the program to output all the HTML/CSS whatever. It really is great and I would recommend a video like Veronica Explains's video on Eleventy to explain it more

So the only issue is that I'm bad at grammar. I am getting better at banging out some writing but going back to edit and review isn't always my strong suit. This issue had me cat out Markdown and checking it out elsewhere. Its not my goal to put it through AI because my goal here is to avoid all that and let this just be me and my "raw" output. So I used LibreOffice which is great because they do let you interact with Markdown files now but this doesn't work too well because I enjoy ssh into the server hosting my files. I could sync up with SCP command but would like to avoid that. I could also set up a git repository and may do that next but having Neovim seems better for now.

So after Grammarly went AI, I have avoided them. The LibreOffice grammar checker hasn't been my favorite so I found Automattic's Harper. It came up on a Mastodon news announcement or something. I enjoyed the Firefox based extension. The Company's owner is toxic but the project itself is open-source, so its okay in my book. If the project goes bad, the open-source community has already challenged that CEO numerous times. So the next deal was to put it into something I used and located on the webpage they have Neovim listed as something Harper works with.