LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 8 Released
Hi all,
Folke (the LazyVim maintainer) released version 12 this week. For a major version number it didn’t include a ton of breaking changes, but it did swap in a new default Typescript Language Server. I spend a lot of time coding in Typescript and haven’t noticed any problems, so hopefully that experience transfers to others!
Thankfully (for me), he didn’t change things up too much so I don’t have a bunch of rewriting to do! The Copilot-chat plugin is now a Lazy Extra, so I’m going to have to rewrite some sections of the AI chapter. But since that one hasn’t even been edited down yet I’m leaving it for future Dusty to deal with.
Today I publicly released Chapter 8, which is on Clipboard, Registers, and Selection. Vim is a lot more powerful than other editors when it comes to yanking and putting (the vim words for copy and paste) text, so there is a lot more content than you might expect. Integrating these tools into your muscle memory will bring a lot of efficiency to your workflow.
I’ve published about half the content I’ve written, which is around three-quarters of the total content in the book. I’m hoping to generate some time his summer to finish the first drafts of the missing chapters. I’m tentatively planning to publish the ebook in the fall and the print edition not too long after.
Thanks, as always, for your interest and support.
Dusty