LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 6 Released
It’s been a very full week, both for me personally and in LazyVim land!
On the personal front, my wife and I released https://www.fablehenge.com/. I promise I wont spam you further with stuff unrelated to LazyVim, but it helps set some context for why I was late getting this mail out. (If you’re interested in writing a novel, check us out!)
The release prevented me from getting to my book until this week, as I ended up completely rewriting the backend post-launch. 😅
It’s just as well though, because Neovim 0.10 dropped on Thursday! It includes several minor niceties that you honestly probably won’t notice because they were already part of LazyVim as plugins. Highly recommend upgrading.
As a consequence of the Neovim 0.10 release, LazyVim made a huge collection of changes to depend on the native features instead of plugins. This culminated in a release of LazyVim 11 yesterday.
It is a major release with some breaking changes. You can install them simply by opening the Lazy Plugin Manager (<Space>l) and hitting S for Sync.
After restarting Neovim, you may want to open the :LazyExtras menu and install all the Extras in the new Recommended Extras section (a feature folke added this morning by my request). A couple of these were removed from LazyVim core, so if you previously relied on them, you might find them missing.
So I’m glad I didn’t update the book on Wednesday! I just spent the last five hours doing serious edits on the already-published chapters of LazyVim for Ambitious Developers to match the new LazyVim behaviour. I don’t think you need to reread anything you’ve already seen, since it’s mostly along the lines of changing “this plugin is in core” to “you need to install this recommended extra”, but it WAS tedious.
In addition, I have released Chapter 6 at https://lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes/course/chapter-6/
It’s all about Basic Editing, and is where you finally start to feel just how powerful modal editing can be.
In addition, Chapter 8 (on registers and clipboard selection) has been edited down and added to my Patreon account.
If any of you were the person who submitted all those errata last week: THANK YOU SO MUCH. Keep ‘em coming! It makes the book better for everyone.
Hopefully this week will be a little calmer for me. I’m currently planning to release Chapter 7 publicly next Friday and get Chapter 9 into Patreon around the same time.
All the best,
Dusty Phillips