LazyVim 13
Hey all,
LazyVim development has been quiet for the last little while. To be honest, that was a bit of a relief for me because the print edition of the book is still relevant!
Last week, Folke released a new coding.blink extra that I’ve been using. It configures the blink.cmp extension, which is essentially a faster alternative to nvim-cmp that uses SIMD instructions to pop up the entries in the completions menu faster. I’ve been using it for a few days. To be honest, nvim-cmp was already “fast enough” that I haven’t really noticed a difference in speed, but if you like to live on the edge, you might want to try it out, too.
Folke released LazyVim 13 yesterday. The primary change is that many of the “little niceties” that have always shipped built into LazyVim have been moved to a collection of plugins that Folke called snacks.nvim. This allows non-LazyVim users to get those features, too, but it doesn’t make a huge difference in actually using the distro.
The only breaking change for me was that lazyvim.ui.bufdelete has been moved to Snacks.bufdelete. I change a few of my custom keybindings as follows:
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader><delete>", function()
Snacks.bufdelete()
end, { desc = "Close Buffer" })
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader><CR>", Snacks.bufdelete.all, { desc = "Close All Buffers" })
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>bo", Snacks.bufdelete.other, { desc = "Close Other Buffers" })
Previously, some of these used bufferline keybindings, but I have disabled bufferline for my needs, so I’m happy to have access to these niceties right in LazyVim!
Snacks.nvim has a bunch of different niceties like this. Some are preconfigured in LazyVim 13, and others you may want to create your own keybindings for.
As far as LazyVim for Ambitious Developers goes, sales of the ebook have been brisk and a few people have ordered the hardcover. I was expecting it to be available through Amazon by now, but the distribution seems not to be set up. I reached out to BookVault to discover what has gone wrong and will let you know when the situation changes.
Keep on editing!
Dusty Phillips